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Cut from American Cloth (2) . The land to the east of my house steps down to the western bank of the Concord and until recent times was called Wamesit Hill, though the only Native American in sight now is the one positioned at the center of the state emblem…
Read More »For the next few days I will publish sections of an essay about Lowell. The essay in a slightly different form first appeared in “The Offering,” the literary magazine of UMass Lowell, in 2007.—PM . Cut from American Cloth In the middle of the nineteenth century, workers in the red-brick…
Read More »Last June, Lowell hosted a conference on Innovative Cities that was attended by people from around the country and overseas. The late Tony Judt wrote about his days in New York City. An excerpt from his forthcoming book “The Memory Chalet’ is in today’s NYTimes. His description of the pluralistic…
Read More »David Paul Kuhn of www.realclearpolitics.com talks to Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia about why the “Reagan Democrats” are leaving or have left the party. Read his article here.
Read More »“If, because of cutbacks and lack of support from the federal government, literature and the arts and other aspects of the humanities become just parlor musings of the wealthy, we would have made a huge mistake,’’ Dartmouth’s president, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, said in an interview. “Literature and the arts…
Read More »Looking at the fallen leaves in my back yard and on the South Common this weekend, I noticed a visual correlation. Maybe I’ve been looking at too many pictures of the cosmos, but it occurred to me that the leaf-strewn ground, if turned downside up, could look a little like…
Read More »John Lennon’s image will appear on a commemorative coin issued in England thanks to a popular vote conducted by the Royal Mint. He joins other notable persons who have received this “honour,” including Shakespeare, Churchill, Darwin, and Florence Nightingale. If England can manage this kind of tribute for John Lennon,…
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Read More »From the NYTimes website, here are several poems in which the writers speak to the daylight savings time experience. It’s a big deal when the NYT gives this kind of premium space to poets. The contributors are well known.
Read More »Cliff on right-side-of-lowell has a new link to a blog by freelance reporter Michael Yon in the AfPak zone that includes a new stunning photograph of Mount Everest. Yon made a side trip to the Himalayas. Here’s the link to see the image.
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