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“The Names” Yesterday, I lay awake in the palm of the night. A soft rain stole in, unhelped by any breeze, And when I saw the silver glaze on the windows, I started with A, with Ackerman, as it happened, Then Baxter and Calabro, Davis and Eberling, names falling into…
Read More »Just back from the morning dog-walk in the South Common under a sky that is not quite as crystalline clear as it was ten years ago, but close in its blue from east to west. With the late summer rain the grass is as green and thick as you would…
Read More »9/11 . In their Catholic high school, John one day sat down for lunch next to a quiet kid who needed a big friend, and the quiet kid grew up to be a teacher and never forgot what it meant to have that new friend—he told people about his friend John, the…
Read More »The NYTimes reported on today’s remembrance ceremony for Flight 93, which crashed in a field after passengers fought the hijackers for control of the plane. Read the article by Katharine Q. Seelye, and get the NYT if you want more. The passenger rebellion, he said, “is the most important battle…
Read More »Note the Sept. 15 deadline for submission of photographs for the Sustainability Snapshots project of the City of Lowell’s Dept. of Planning and Development. Here are the details. What do you want to pass on to future generations? Share your vision of Lowell. Contest Overview Nearly ten years ago, the…
Read More »“Lucy Larcom Park” by Richard Marion (c) 2011 To see more artwork, visit www.richardmarion.net
Read More »With economist and housing expert Karl “Chip” Case, the popular Lunchtime Lectures at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center starts another season on Monday, Oct. 3, 12 noon to 1.30 pm, at the ICC at 50 Warren St. in downtown Lowell. Case is the co-author of the highly regarded Case-Shiller Index,…
Read More »Aside from the particulars of the policy proposals made by the President last night, I was happy to hear his robust defense of the role played by government at the federal level. Our ideal of a representative democracy composed of 50 states is not 300 million maverick independent contractors trying…
Read More »In today’s NYTimes, opinion writer David Brooks signs on to President Obama’s jobs surge plan outlined last night in a pumped-up speech to Congress and his fellow Americans. Brooks writes: There is clearly now a significant risk of a double-dip recession. That would be terrible for America’s workers, fiscal situation…
Read More »UMass Lowell 9/11 Memorial Rededication Ceremony is on for 11 a.m. today along the Riverwalk on the East Campus behind Leitch Residence Hall, 111 Pawtucket St. Park at UML’s Perkins St. lot at Lawrence Mills complex, across the street from LeLacheur Park. The event is on rain or shine. We have…
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