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Milky Way . Wind gusts. Lamps flicker. If there’s a power cut, we’ll sit and talk about the storm, sure the villa will hold up, then rise in the light of our Sun. The other stars can’t help us, their faint points beautiful but useless except for how they hold…
Read More »According to a story in today’s Eagle Tribune, Merrimack Valley best-selling author Andre Dubus III told a Haverhill Chamber of Commerce audience that he has signed a contract to have his memoir “Townie” about growing up in Haverhill made into a movie. Two unnamed actor-producer brothers have paid for a…
Read More »The Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene online site has an excellent new review of Paul Hudon’s book-length poem “All in Good Time” (Loom Press) by Irene Koronas of Wilderness House Literary Review. Paul Hudon’s writing, his poems, are open, contemporary; they inspire, invite the reader in. His language resolves…
Read More »Thanks to George DeLuca on Facebook for this link to a Guardian in the UK article about the Buddhist wiseman Thich Nhat Hahn’s statements on living in balance on Earth. Read the article here. Sustainability Week has become the theme for every week starting now. Web photo by Frank Schweitzer, courtesy of…
Read More »In the network of National Parks, Monuments, Recreation Areas, Historial Parks, Battlefields, and other units, Golden Gate in San Francisco is one of the most spectacular for a scenic vista dominated by a wonder of technology, the big red-orange bridge. The people of San Francisco have planned a year-long celebration…
Read More »When Lowell National Historical Park was signed into law in 1978, people involved with creating it often talked about how it would be a different kind of Park because Lowell is a “living city” and wasn’t about to be frozen in time for tourism. The Park is the city, and…
Read More »Perhaps lost or at least a bit below the radar is the reality that the job of the Joint Redistricting Committee is to review and possibly realign the state senate and state rep districts across the Commonwealth. It was evident at the hearing at Lawrence High School last Monday evening…
Read More »The Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy can crank up his prose to meet the occasion. Today’s column about the Bruins winning the Stanley Cup is one to clip out of the paper or print from boston.com and keep on file. Read his take on the win, and get the Globe if…
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