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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 »Lowell Memorial Auditorium virtual tour
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 »Emily Ferrara: A New Poem
“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 »‘Spring and All’ by William Carlos Williams
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…
Read More »Fred Notes: April 6, 2020
Ten Sure Ways to Know It’s a Pandemic By Fred Faust Tests are hard to come by these days. It remains vital to determine if we are COVID-19 positive. I pray that you and your family are safe and well. While the pandemic issue is no longer in dispute, there…
Read More »Live Free or Die (in a Pandemic)
Nicholas Whitmore, who creates a daily cartoon for The Journal in Newcastle Upon Tyne on the northeast coast of England, shares today’s cartoon with us.
Read More »Lowell Cemetery virtual tour
Here’s my first attempt at a true “virtual tour” all on video. It’s a 30-minute trip through historic Lowell Cemetery. It’s posted on YouTube and Facebook. I hope it is the first of many: If the above video viewer doesn’t work go directly to YouTube to see the video.
Read More »Covid-19: April 4, 2020 edition
The city of Lowell posted the above graphic on Thursday. It shows 121 diagnosed cases in Lowell with 13 of them hospitalized and 2 deaths. The Highlands has the largest number of cases with 24, followed by Centralville with 15 and Belvidere with 13. With all that is going on,…
Read More »Fred Notes: March 29, 2020
Corona Virus Wedding By Fred Faust This past Friday was spent respecting social distance. But on a sunny afternoon, at the end of a tense week, I decided that it would be a good thing to take a bike ride along the river. My destination was the Boott Mills and…
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