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The world premiere of Jack Kerouac’s play “Beat Generation” at Merrimack Repertory Theatre. Author talks by physicist David Kaiser, poet Anne Waldman, and others. Jay Atkinson with the rundown on Kerouac the Athlete. Lowell literary tours by Roger Brunelle. Kerouac’s former girlfriend and now his biographer Joyce Johnson signng books at…
Read More »“Almost at the End of the Road” by Tom Sexton At Ottawa, Ontario, we begin to follow the Ottawa River to Arnprior. It’s hard to believe, but the French Voyageurs followed the Ottawa to its source and then followed the Great Lakes west. Portage La Prairie in Manitoba was part…
Read More »The Sun this week published an extensive look at the historic transformation in process at UMass Lowell. Anyone in the city can see the physical evidence of expansion. Not since the 1970s have we seen the amount of construction on campus—and now the campus boundaries extend much farther. With the…
Read More »Another report from the highway by Tom Sexton.—PM “Hoito” by Tom Sexton One of my favorite places when we reach Thunder Bay, Ontario, is a restaurant called the Hoito, the word means “care” in Finnish. It was opened in 1918 on the bottom floor of the Finnish Labor Temple as…
Read More »Here’s the latest from the road from Tom Sexton, sent late Tuesday. He is in New England as you read this. I expect the next report will be from Eastport, Maine.– PM . “Spruce Lake” by Tom Sexton This might be the last entry since we’re almost to Vermont. It…
Read More »Like Charles Dickens of ye olde England, Tom Sexton of old Lowell has a serial tale going here about his travels with his wife, Sharyn, and loyal pup in a valiant Passat making its way “from the west unto the east.”—PM “Little Passat on the Prairies” by Tom Sexton…
Read More »For the past couple of years, there has been a political critique in the air that was especially favored by national Republicans. The charge was (is) that the economy is lagging because of deep “uncertainty” in the “business community” about what to expect in the areas of taxation, regulation, monetary…
Read More »Following is the third bulletin from the road from Tom Sexton, our far-flung correspondent who is making his way eastward with his wife, Sharyn, and their trusty dog.—PM “Onward” by Tom Sexton The usual route from Dawson Creek, B.C., east is through Grand Prairie, Alberta, to Edmonton, and then south…
Read More »This is the second dispatch from Tom Sexton as he and his wife, Sharyn, make their way across North America to the rocky shores of Maine.—PM . “Leaving Fort Nelson, British Columbia” by Tom Sexton . The first time we were in Fort Nelson, British Columbia, it was a sleepy…
Read More »Our friend, faithful reader, and occasional contributor Tom Sexton is driving across the continent with his wife, Sharyn, headed from Alaska to Maine for the fall and winter. He will send us dispatches from the road while they are out there. Following is the first report. Tom is on the list of…
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