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Constitution on her 213th birthday, 21 October 2010 History.com tells us that on this day – October 21, 1797, the USS Constitution – a 44-gun, wooden-hulled, three-masted, heavy frigate of the United States Navy – was launched in Boston Harbor. Named by President George Washington after the Constitution of the United States – she is the world’s…
Read More »Update on “The Fighter 2” – In today’s Boston Herald “Inside Track” there’s a report that a break-up in the personal relationship of “The Fighter” producer and star Mark Wahlberg and its director David O. Russell may put the anticipated sequel on the ropes. The “Track” reports the Lowell’s Mickey…
Read More »“Lowell Morning” by Richard Marion (c) 2011 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »The figures beneath Debussy depict his two best-known works: “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fawn” and “Pelleas et Melisande.” This 1987 sculpture is located on the South Campus of UMass Lowell near Durgin Concert Hall for the Performing Arts. Photos by Tony Sampas.
Read More »There’s a lot of talk out there about books and reading being endangered by changing tastes among people. And then there was “Harry Potter” with lines around the bookstore block and six-year-olds reading hardcovers as thick as a brick. And now there’s Haruki Murakami of Japan, a literary writer selling millions of books.…
Read More »Early Saturday afternoon my wife and I drove through downtown and lower Centralville towards East Dracut and our destination: Brox Farm on Rte. 113, which has one of the region’s best farm stands. I don’t go to Brox’s as often as I used to, so it was like old times…
Read More »Huffingtonpost.com this morning leads with reports on Occupy demonstrations in the US and abroad.
Read More »Talking with Roger at Cote’s Market on Salem Street this afternoon, I learned that Cote’s is a food supplier for the Bay State Marathon being run in Lowell tomorrow. He said he has a crew of 12 coming in around 2 a.m. to prepare enormous quantities of soup (chicken noodle…
Read More »Occupy solidarity demonstration in Berlin, Germany, today (web photo by AP courtesy of nytimes.com) Read today’s report in the New York Times here and get the NYT on your porch or online if you want more.
Read More »“Occupy Wall Street” has changed from an advertised brand of public-action therapy in Manhattan to a generic social drug called “Occupy.” The new drug is being prescribed and administered in cities far and wide, in this country and now abroad, by self-licensed community healers who have decided that current public policy remedies are damaging their nations’…
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