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ArtWeek 2018 begins this Friday across Massachusetts with Lowell as a big participant. The best way to keep informed of what’s going on locally is on the ArtWeek 2018 in Lowell Facebook page. Here are the Lowell events currently listed there: April 28, 11am-2pm: Artists’ Reception, Quilted Canvas II at…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Getty Images It was June 1990, Severance Green at Wellesley College. Blue sky, warm sunshine, graduating seniors and their families waiting to hear from two commencement honorees, Raisa Gorbachev, the wife of Russian premier Mikhail Gorbachev, and Barbara…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Getty Images Renaming Yawkey Street next to Fenway Park as Jersey Street, its original name, should be a no-brainer. The reputation of the Boston Red Sox under the leadership of the late owner Tom Yawkey reinforced the sense…
Read More »A great new exhibit on all the logos, signs, seals and other images using for branding Lowell through the years will open tomorrow at the Mogan Cultural Center at 40 French Street from 3 to 5 pm. Digital previews of the exhibit reveal that it will present a lesson in…
Read More »US Rep. Nancy Pelosi and US Sen. Charles Schumer should sacrifice their own ambition to help their nation and party. The success of attorney and former Marine Conor Lamb in this week’s congressional election in southwest Pennsylvania is further evidence of the potential for widespread victory by Democrats in the…
Read More »Tomorrow night (Wednesday, Jan 10, from 7 to 9 pm), I will be the guest speaker at the annual meeting of the Merrimack River Watershed Council. The meeting, which is free and open to the public, will be held at Navigation Brewing Co. at 122 Western Ave in Lowell (inside…
Read More »Time for another “storm blog” in the tradition of our team post of January 26, 2015 on the Blizzard of ’15. We’ll collectively update it through the day as the storm progresses. I begin this post at 6 a.m. on Thursday, January 4, 2018. The temperature is 17 degrees –…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Queen Elizabeth had nothing on us when she declared 1992 an annus horribilis. All she had to endure were the respective marital difficulties of son Andrew and daughter Anne, a tell-all book by Princess Di about Charles and…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog Getty images It was a lot easier getting up this morning knowing the headline out of Alabama read: first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate in a quarter of a century from the state known as “the Heart of…
Read More »Here’s another entry about politics from my 1992 personal journal. I had been volunteering in Paul Tsongas’s presidential campaign for about a year when he suspended his campaign for the Democratic nomination on March 19 for lack of capacity to keep battling Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas. Paul had won…
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