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A Virginia resident watching an AT&T Commercial spotted a Lowell landmark in the video and sent me a link. The advertisement is for AT&T FirstNet, an emergency communications network. The above screenshot is of the Covid-19 drive thru testing site at Cross Point which appears in the background. Check out…
Read More »Optional soundtrack Kristos Anestis! By George Chigas Kristos Anestis Alithos Anestis Christ has risen! Indeed, He has risen! Saying that to people as they arrived at the house was about as religious as it got for our family at Easter. I think Aunt Filitsa was the only one who really…
Read More »For Andover’s 350th Anniversary in 1996, Julie Mofford wrote a one-woman show based on Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ Civil War short stories and her autobiography “Chapters From A Life,” with Julie’s daughter, Lauren, portraying the author. Julie also scripted “The Tenth of January,” a play based on Phelps’ story about the…
Read More »Today’s cartoon from Nicholas Whitmore.
Read More »Sad-Eyed Lady By David Daniel Mornings she’s out there on the sidewalk, costumed in a long satiny smock and wearing a spiked crown, both the color of tarnished bronze. Not clothing for not-quite spring; but this is about timing. April is coming and she’s an enticement, representing—I have to…
Read More »Isolation Scenes By Doug Sparks I’ve noticed a pair of robins who occasionally perch on the roof kitty-corner to our living room. So far, I’ve been flattering myself that this is some kind of Disney idyll — that the birds are enamored of my two young girls, and are checking…
Read More »Welcome today’s Lowell Walk. In this episode we visit the Lowell Memorial Auditorium and learn about the many monuments and historic artifacts on the grounds and within the building: If the above video window doesn’t work for you, follow this link to our YouTube page and watch the video from…
Read More »“Gov ordered statewide lockdown until April 7. Nonessential biz’s to close physical operations. We are really in this now.” —from a 3/23/2020 email from Paul Marion, writer and Loom Press founder We Are Really In This Now By Emily Ferrara At Swamp Locks Dam on the downstream side the Great…
Read More »A regular contributor offered these photos of Spring and suggested the following from the volume of poems by William Carlos Williams, published in 1923, was a fitting accompaniment for the photos and for our time. Spring and All By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the…
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