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Last weekend, my wife, Rosemary, and I enjoyed a matinee performance of “The Verse Business” by A. M. Dolan, the one-man show about Robert Frost, starring Gordon Clapp, who is best known for his acting in the TV series “NYPD Blue.” Except for the side seats in the balcony, the…
Read More »This one is for all the bloggers who started on ancient machinery. “Writing Life” by Richard Marion (c) 2011 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all. —Pericles (495–429 BC), speaking about citizens of Athens and politics
Read More »FROM UMASS LOWELL PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE AND CENTER FOR PUBLIC OPINION 11/06/2011 By Christine Gillette, (w) 978-934-2209, (c) 978-758-4664, Christine_Gillette@uml.edu If you have trouble viewing the charts in this release, please e-mail Christine_Gillette@uml.edu. Nov. 6, 2011 Backers of Opposing Groups Largely Share Dislike of Government, Corporations; UMass Lowell Holds Forum…
Read More »In The Nation magazine online, journalist and public intellectual Bill Moyers shares his view of where and when America started going down the wrong road. The essay is taken from a speech he gave in October and which has been making the rounds on the web. Read his analysis and…
Read More »The argument for saving primary materials such as notebooks is strengthened by recent news that an old notebook in the archives of Choate prep school confirms the source for what may be the most famous quotation associated with President John F. Kennedy. Associated Press reporter Michael Melia in a boston.com…
Read More »A scene from Back Central. “Greenwood Bros.” by Richard Marion (c) 2011 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »In the category of “The More Things Change”—While cleaning in the home office last weekend, I found a batch of old news clippings, including one from the Christian Science Monitor of August 3, 2006. In his first big speech, Bush administration Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson listed growing income inequality as one…
Read More »Adam Goodheart in the NYTimes wrote about the Fort Monroe designation as a new National Park. Read his article here, and get the NYT if you want more. Fort Monroe, the president said as he prepared to sign the order, “was the site of the first slave ships to land…
Read More »Lowell National Historical Park Supt. Michael Creasey and Asst. Supt. Peter Aucella have both called attention to the President Obama’s announcement of the newest National Park at Fort Monroe in Virginia, which mentions the historic decision by Lowell’s own General Benjamin F. Butler to declare Southern slaves as contraband of war…
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