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Next Monday marks the 30th anniversary of the dedication of the Jack Kerouac Commemorative in Kerouac Park on Bridge and French streets. On the dedication day, some 200 people gathered for the celebration, joined by journalists from the Sun, Boston Globe, New York Times, New Yorker magazine, CBS-News TV, and international…
Read More »I am introducing a new writer to our blog readers. He’s not new to writing, but we haven’t featured his work here before. I met Mike McCormick through Tom Sexton, one of our regular far-flung contributors who is a mutual friend. That would be Tom Sexton, the poet and retired…
Read More »US Rep. Nancy Pelosi and US Sen. Charles Schumer should sacrifice their own ambition to help their nation and party. The success of attorney and former Marine Conor Lamb in this week’s congressional election in southwest Pennsylvania is further evidence of the potential for widespread victory by Democrats in the…
Read More »We have a brand new poem by Tom Sexton, our far-flung contributor and faithful reader who is in Alaska this time of year. Tom, as many of our readers know, is the author of several books of poetry including “A Ladder of Cranes” (Univ. of Alaska Press, 2015) and “Bridge…
Read More »It’s about ten days early in the month for the timing of this post about a 2010 canal-side hike that appeared first on this blog and was reprinted in my book Mill Power. The weather is warming, and soon enough we’ll be into the days of preseason Lowell Walks and…
Read More »Former FBI director James Comey speaks out on the GOP attacks on the agency. We are at a very weird stage of our democracy,” former FBI counterterrorism special agent Ali Soufan told The Daily Beast on Thursday. “It’s not just about the FBI. It’s about loyalty to the president, or loyalty…
Read More »Federal government shut-down shenanigans. Big shout-out to our man on the White House beat, Jonathan Lemire from Lowell of the Associated Press and MSNBC TV, for his crisp, insightful, and informed commentary when paired last night with veteran broadcaster Brian Williams as they followed the folly in the US Senate…
Read More »Through the years, writers on this blog have taken up the subject of Place as a way to talk about what it means to feel part of a community. The term “sense of place” is familiar to most of us, but that feeling is intangible and sometimes difficult to…
Read More »MORE FROM THE PAGE’S RESTAURANT DRINKS MENU (From the mid-20th century) Page’s Restaurant at the Clock in the Square Lowell, Massachusetts Wine List Cocktail Bar Main Dining Room … Private Dining Room Second Floor Fountain Specials on Back Page . . . Scotch Whiskies White Horse .35 Black and White…
Read More »Ink drawing of Page’s Clock by Richard Marion, c. 1975 (Menu text from the 20th century, maybe early 1940s) Page’s Restaurant At the Clock in the Square, Lowell, Massachusetts Wine List, Cocktail Bar Main Dining Room … Private Dining Room (Second Floor) Fountain Specials on Back Page Whiskies Straight or…
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