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Here’s a press release I received concerning next Tuesday’s “Next Generation Giving Circle’s” Challenge Night. Please check it out – it’s a good cause that will benefit the region’s arts and culture nonprofits: The Next Generation Giving Circle (NGGC) presents its first ever “Challenge Night” event on October 2, an…
Read More »As Tom Sexton drove cross continent from Alaska to Maine, he shared some images from the journey; these from Mattawa, Ontario.
Read More »The inaugural play of the MRT’s new season, Homestead Crossing, continues until next Sunday so there’s still time to see it. I did yesterday and enjoyed it very much. Written by Massachusetts-based playwright William Donnelly, the play is about “an old married couple” (they’re in their early 50s) whose life…
Read More »The world premiere of Jack Kerouac’s play “Beat Generation” at Merrimack Repertory Theatre. Author talks by physicist David Kaiser, poet Anne Waldman, and others. Jay Atkinson with the rundown on Kerouac the Athlete. Lowell literary tours by Roger Brunelle. Kerouac’s former girlfriend and now his biographer Joyce Johnson signng books at…
Read More »More photos from Tom Sexton’s cross-continent trip from Alaska to Maine
Read More »“Almost at the End of the Road” by Tom Sexton At Ottawa, Ontario, we begin to follow the Ottawa River to Arnprior. It’s hard to believe, but the French Voyageurs followed the Ottawa to its source and then followed the Great Lakes west. Portage La Prairie in Manitoba was part…
Read More »Another report from the highway by Tom Sexton.—PM “Hoito” by Tom Sexton One of my favorite places when we reach Thunder Bay, Ontario, is a restaurant called the Hoito, the word means “care” in Finnish. It was opened in 1918 on the bottom floor of the Finnish Labor Temple as…
Read More »Here’s the latest from the road from Tom Sexton, sent late Tuesday. He is in New England as you read this. I expect the next report will be from Eastport, Maine.– PM . “Spruce Lake” by Tom Sexton This might be the last entry since we’re almost to Vermont. It…
Read More »No, I’m not writing about Bernie Lynch today. “Bernie & Bill” is the name of a new exhibit at Lowell’s Whistler House Museum of Art featuring the works of Lowell artists Bernard Petruzziello and Vassilios “Bill” Giavis. Both produce excellent work but I’ve long been a fan of Bill Giavis.…
Read More »Like Charles Dickens of ye olde England, Tom Sexton of old Lowell has a serial tale going here about his travels with his wife, Sharyn, and loyal pup in a valiant Passat making its way “from the west unto the east.”—PM “Little Passat on the Prairies” by Tom Sexton…
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