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Video originally posted by lowellfilm YouTube video description: “Jack Kerouac historian and Lowellian Roger Brunelle talks with Suzzanne Cromwell on the banks of the Merrimack River which dramatically overflowed in March 2010. In a spontaneous moment, Brunelle expounds about the 1936 floods in Lowell, relaying how Kerouac integrated the experience…

The entry below is being cross posted from Jack Neary’s own blog, Shards. I’m always hearing stories about how the nuns messed up the lives of so many of my Lapsed Catholic friends. (Yes, Catholics can be friends with Lapsed Catholics. All a Catholic has to do to maintain the…

One year ago today Senator Ted Kennedy lost his battle with brain cancer. Many believe (including me) that his greatest moment was the concession speech he gave at the 1980 Democratic Convention. I remember watching it at the time, thinking…here is a great talent marred by personal flaws. Click HERE…

Republican candidate for Governor, Charlie Baker released this new campaign Advertisement this morning.

“The Westford Rotary holds its 2010 Blues ‘n Brews Festival on Saturday, August 21st at the Nashoba Ski Area in Westford, Massachusetts. Learn more at www.bluesnbrews.com” Originally posted by mbeek6 Smokehouse Lightning

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Sorting out my feelings about the so-called “Mosque” near Ground Zero has been an odyssey of heart, gut and head.  The journey has not been easy. Some 9/11 survivors are genuinely aghast at the location of this proposed…

Fox 25 News has a popular segment on its morning edition called Zip Trips. Zip Trips sends Fox 25 on-air personalities to various small towns to interview locals. Most recently popular commentator, VB visited Tewksbury where he interviewed former Town Treasurer and Town Historian Warren Carey. In the video below…

The following entry is being cross posted from local playwright, Jack Neary’s own blog, Shards. I stepped on my Kindle. This is one of the main things you should not do with your Kindle. Step on it. When you step on it, it stops being a Kindle. The only thing…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Say the word “auditor,” and you probably think sweaty palms, sleepless nights and maybe a nervous tic. But the race for state auditor has nothing directly to do with your tax returns or individual finances. The words “state…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. ABC news calls the Pakistani flooding “the worst floods in memory.” Fourteen million homeless. Six million children affected. Sixteen percent of the country under water due to two weeks of monsoon rains, which have created literally hundreds of…