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For nearly 30 years, the approach of the last weekend of July has signaled the arrival of the Lowell Folk Festival. That won’t be the case in this pandemic-fractured year. But here are a couple of reminders of what we’ll be missing . . . 2007 WOW Opening at the…
Read More »Linda Hoffman has a fascinating new post on her Apples, Art, and Spirit blog. An accomplished artist as well as a farmer, Linda sculpts figures in wax. This post explains how a wax model is transformed into a bronze statue. Our journey of discovery involves a lavishly illustrated visit to…
Read More »Today we’re introducing a new feature: Lowell Lists. Besides our ongoing presentation of new literary content by writers and poets from Lowell and beyond, we also hope to make this site the go-to place for information about Lowell. Since lists are a useful vehicle for presenting a large volume of…
Read More »Some Saturday morning cartoons from the past few weeks from our UK-based cartoonist, Nicholas Whitmore:
Read More »One of the things that has distinguished Lowell from other similar sized cities in post Industrial America is its willingness to keep moving forward. Some efforts work well, others don’t. But the critical thing is to keep trying. Today, we dipped back in the archives and found four such stories,…
Read More »CROSS OF SNOW By Nicholas Basbanes 461 pp. Knopf. For many years my relationship with poetry might best be described as admiration from a distance so I would not normally pick up the biography of a poet. But the city of Lowell is a constant tug on my attention which…
Read More »While we were busy with Baseball Week (or maybe “Fortnight” since it lasted for two weeks), Linda Hoffman has added a couple of new posts to her Apples, Art, and Spirit blog. Pedaling for Peace In this June 28, 2020, post, Linda writes about Sam Gloyd who is making a…
Read More »Jay Pendergast: A Singular Man By Steve O’Connor My best guess is 1978. Summer workers for the Neighborhood Youth Corps had painted an Irish-themed mural on the back of a building facing Worthen Street. Naturally, after the dedication, the crowd meandered over to the Old Worthen. It was a beautiful…
Read More »A Perfectly Strange Day at the Beach by Henri Marchand This essay, written in July of 2008 during the last economic crisis, seems apt for our current times. On a recent Sunday morning, a two weeks before the 2020 July 4th holiday, we took our first ride to the beach…
Read More »The Art of Getting Home: Bart Giamatti and the 1952 Saint Patrick’s Girls Softball Team By Christine O’Connor No one has ever written about the game of baseball with more intelligence and beauty than former Baseball Commissioner Bart Giamatti. In one of his many essays on the subject he described…
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