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My brother Richard recently came across a 1930s promotional flier for an event in Lowell that I had never heard about: Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd appeared in the Moses Greeley Parker Lecture Series on Dec. 13, 1935. His topic was the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition, whose duration was from…
Read More »“In early 1979, after living under the murderous Pol Pot regime for nearly four years, my family and I returned to our destroyed village, finding nothing but the ashes of our home and fallow fields where there had once been prosperous rice paddies. Life seemed hopeless, yet we were determined…
Read More »Welcome to a new literary contributor to the blog, writer Mark Reimer, who is on the staff at UMass Lowell. —PM . Interior Humbaba’s sixth aura was given to the forests; I read this on the train and note contrails in the sky marking off our path to the…
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Read More »Rev. Lucien Sawyer, O.M.I., will be signing copies of St. Jean Baptiste Parish and the Franco Americans of Lowell, Mass. at St. Joseph the Worker Shrine on Lee Street this Saturday, Feb. 8, at 1 p.m. Rev. Sawyer translated into English the original French text by Father Richard Santerre. Rev.…
Read More »There was a disturbance in the educational force this week when Joyce Denning passed away. She was Professor Joyce Denning of the Political Science Department at UMass Lowell. I am one of the lucky ones who can say she was my teacher. There are hundreds of us. Thousands. She is…
Read More »Illustrations from the Blizzard of ’78, when I was living at Whitecliff Manor apartment complex off Mammoth Road in Dracut. I made these colored sketches in my big writing notebook, sitting at a desk in front of a window in my bedroom that overlooked the parking lot.—PM
Read More »It was a good morning for a walk in the park, national historical park, that is, so Rosemary and I took Ringo the dog for a mighty hike down along the lower reach of the Western Canal at the bottom of Suffolk Street and then through the mill yard at…
Read More »This is a shout out to everyone at Merrimack Repertory Theatre who brought audiences an outstanding production of The Devil’s Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith, featuring Miche Braden in the lead role. A hot three-piece band made up of Jim Hankins on bass, Aaron Graves on piano, and…
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