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The following essay is from Jim Peters: It is Christmas evening, which I guess can be confused with Christmas Eve(ning) but that is a stretch. I got everything I wanted, since I had no list of things that I desired. My family was with me, my mother was up from…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. Sometimes the answer to who wins a debate lies in what sticks with you two days after the event. In the case of Tuesday’s CNN GOP Presidential debate out of Las Vegas, there were…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Members of the media may finally be falling out of love with Donald Trump. For months, they have been conduits for every outrageous hateful thing he has said, providing him millions of dollars worth of airtime for free…
Read More »From HuffPo, a leading French intellectual lays out what he sees at stake in the coming election in France. There’s turmoil in the electorate because of the turmoil in the affairs of war and politics all over the place. There’s a connection to the Trump thing there also, with many…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It has been nearly a century since the New York Times published an editorial on its front page. It didn’t do so during the Great Depression, the Holocaust or the Vietnam War. Today, in the wake of…
Read More »This Saturday at noon you will have a unique opportunity to take a guided walk underneath the Lowell Connector. Sponsored by the Lowell Parks and Conservation Trust and led by its executive director, Jane Calvin, this walk will trace the intended path of the extension of the Bruce Freeman Trail.…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Finally, the bird gets even. This is clearly a step beyond the President’s annual commuting of the Thanksgiving turkey’s death sentence. “Turkey shoots down Russian warplane near Syrian border.” But no, it’s not the revenge of the…
Read More »The Lowell Social Media Conference has been held at LTC on the first Saturday of December for the past few years. I had planned to do that again this year, but with Lowell Walks and the recent publication of my new book, Lowell: Images of Modern America , I thought…
Read More »Merrimack Press (whose parent company publishes Merrimack Valley Magazine) has teamed with Mill No. 5 have teamed up to host a monthly author reading and book signing series to take place on Thursday evenings at Mill No. 5. The first event will be tomorrow night (Thursday, November 19, 2015) at…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Our friends in Paris are safe: “shocked, sad, anxious, but safe.” But also angry, en colère. A lot of their children’s friends and school mates were injured; a university friend, 21 years old, is dead. Here at home,…
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