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Austen Mania Stephen O’Connor Originally a Lowell Sunrise essay for the one-time UMass Lowell morning news and public affairs program at WUML-FM. The author would add that in rereading it he remembered the kindness of the late Christine Dunlap, a lovely woman, who encouraged him to write for Lowell Sunrise.…
Read More »Fred Notes is a recurring column by Fred Faust Heartache, Cope and Hope By Fred Faust These are the thoughts, experiences and hopes of three members of the Greater Lowell community in confronting the impacts of the corona virus. On the Front Lines Dr. Arthur “Chip” Gonsalves is on the…
Read More »Yesterday was the anniversary of the deaths of Luther Ladd and Addison Whitney, two young mill workers from Lowell who died in Baltimore on April 19, 1861, while serving with the Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment. (See yesterday’s post for the story of the Baltimore Riot). The Commonwealth of Massachusetts…
Read More »As part of my ongoing Virtual Lowell Walks series, I have created two new videos on Civil War Lowell. The first, called Lords of the Loom, covers the conflict in Lowell between the interests of the city’s economy which was entirely dependent on raw cotton picked by enslaved Africans in…
Read More »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…
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