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Lowell Army & Navy Day, South Common, 1918
Lowell Army & Navy Day, Nov. 9, 1918, an event organized by the War Camp Community Service. Panoramic photograph by George Russell, courtesy of UMass Lowell Center for Lowell History. Click on the photo to see it larger. Here is the CLH background on Russell: George Hall Russell was born…
Read More »South Common, June 1944
An image from Lowell High School Field Day in June 1944 contributed by Eleanor Sullivan at a Mass. Memories Road Show event at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum of Lowell National Historical Park. The photo was published by the University Archives and Special Collections at UMass Boston, and can be…
Read More »South Common Improvement Plan
April 21, 2014
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PaulM
Posted in Neighborhoods, Culture, Current Events, History, Lowell, City Council
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I walked our dog on the South Common this morning. The grass had turned green seemingly overnight, a refreshing sight after the long winter. Fat-chested robins in their red bibs poked at the defrosted ground on the sports field. In the high fir trees invisible birds called and sang brightly.…
Read More »Dennis Lehane Making Sense
“As a country, we used to respect knowledge that was earned over knowledge that was cherry picked.” —Dennis Lehane, Boston Globe,4/1/9/14 In today’s Boston Globe, author Dennis Lehane thinks aloud about the Boston Marathon Bombing, knowledge vs. opinion, intellectual relativism, bad narratives, and his belief that good ideas will prevail.…
Read More »‘Regatta Door’ by Richard Marion
“Regatta Door” by Richard Marion (c) 2014 [original, 1978] Artist Richard Marion found a discarded cabinet door along the Merrimack River one day in 1978 and soon after used it for a painting that captures the dynamism of rowers on the river. See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »Another Lowell Poet Whom We Should Know
(re-posted from Sept. 14, 2008) “Thomas Fitzsimmons was born in Lowell in October 1926. He entered WWII as a young merchant mariner following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and left the US Army Air Force after the bombing of Hiroshima. He taught for many years at Oakland University in Michigan…
Read More »Dismantle the South Common? Hands Off.
The South Common was created for the enjoyment of all the residents of the city. The South Common is not an empty lot waiting for a better use. The South Common is functioning well for its designated purpose, thank you. The South Common is scheduled for a major renovation, based…
Read More »Poetry at the Parker (4/12/14)
We had more than 50 people at the Whistler House Museum yesterday for the poetry reading with Joe Donahue and me offering work angled toward the Acre neighborhood and Aegean Sea in honor of our hosts, Lowell’s Hellenic Culture & Heritage Society. We ranged through tragedy and memory and mystical…
Read More »Donahue & Marion Reading Today (Older Than They Once Were)
Joe Donahue, c. 2000 Paul Marion, c. 1986 (photo by James Higgins) At 2 p.m. today, there’s a poetry reading with these young guys pictured above at the Whistler House Museum of Art, Parker Gallery, 243 Worthen St., downtown Lowell. The program is called “The Cultural Lines of Poetry,…
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