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‘Winter Abstraction’ by Richard Marion
“Winter Abstraction” by Richard Marion (c) 2014 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
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Lowell as ‘Bingopolis’
On the Lowell Memorial Auditorium website, I found this fascinating nugget in Ed Harley’s history of the building—PM “After its dedication in 1922, the Lowell Memorial Auditorium hosted a variety of conventions, civic and religious affairs, and programs of purely recreational or educational values. Liberty Hall became the home of…
Read More »Beatles 50 Years Ago
Fifty years ago on February 9, 1964 the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. Their performance is a part of music history. Two years after the Sullivan performance, the Beatles came to Massachusetts. It was 1966 and I was fifteen years old…and I loved the Beatles (as I still…
Read More »Adventures of Ivy (dog videos)
I’ve long urged people to start producing short videos about life in Lowell. Content more than quality is the point. Flood the internet with a video record about everyday things that we take for granted but when seen in video might help us appreciate them more. Back in January, I…
Read More »Admiral Richard E. Byrd @ Parker Lectures (1935)
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 »Notes from Western Ave by Maxine Farkas
Maxine Farkas sends the following from Western Ave . . . Notes from Western Ave. – random thoughts, a week in the writing. I started this last week, but got interrupted, so this is even more of a ramble than normal! It is 8 in the morning on First Saturday…
Read More »Cambodia: 1979
“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 »‘Interior’ by Mark Reimer
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…
Read More »Bobsleds? Nah, Baseball.
Topps baseball card, 1966 set.
Read More »Book Launch: French Canadian-American History in Lowell
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.…
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