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Some of the readers of this blog know that for the past year I have been writing a book about the origin and impact of Lowell’s national park. Below is a “sidebar” piece that will appear in the “Making the Park” chapter. The manuscript is nearly complete, and Lowell National Historical Park will…
Read More »“Cake and Tea” by Richard Marion, (c) 2012 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »Renae Lias Claffey, familiar to many in the Lowell community, has an Op-Ed piece in today’s Nashua Telegraph in which she analyzes the presidential election just past. Read her thoughts here.
Read More »In the film “Lincoln,” during the scene in which the roll is being called for votes for and against the adoption of a Constitutional amendment to ban slavery, I couldn’t help wondering who was representing Lowell in the US Congress at that moment. According to the ever-useful “Cotton Was King”…
Read More »Contact: Matthew Corcoran, corcoran00@gmail.com, 978-677-1069 INVENTORY, BY ADAM H. MARCHAND, AN INSTALLATION OPENING AT THE WASHINGTON STREET ART CENTER, 10 NOVEMBER SOMERVILLE, Mass. — With Inventory, Adam H. Marchand has cataloged thirty years’ worth of his possessions on index cards. On each card (there are 2,500) he has typed brief…
Read More »This is a revised version of a poem of the season from my second full-length collection of poems, “Middle Distance,” published in 1989. The setting is drawn from the view across fields in Dracut, off Mammoth Road looking toward Lakeview Avenue.–PM . Desire Lines . At Runaway Hill, where a horse…
Read More »Join us for a celebration of the life and contributions of one of the great humanitarians of modern Lowell: Peter Stamas. Thursday, Nov 15, 7 pm, Parker Gallery, Whistler House Museum of Art, Worthen St, Lowell. The illustration below is by Janet Lambert-Moore, created as a tribute for Peter’s retirement.
Read More »Frank Rich, illustration by Gary Bedard (web image courtesy of garybedard.blogspot.com) Read this New York magazine analysis of the election and national political culture by Frank Rich, former columnist at the NYTimes. His acute observations are refreshing compared to the misleading neutrality of so many mainstream media types. To give my Facebook friends…
Read More »A while back I wrote about the perplexing “half-n-half” character of the American electorate. On Morning Joe today the hosts ran through the polls in battleground states and nationwide, showing a virtual tie between the President and his challenger. This, after two years of the Republicans making a case against…
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