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Wapack Hike for the Wild: Two Local Couples Strive to Protect Open Space and Wild Land On June 6, 2020, Emilie-Noelle Provost and Robert Hamilton of Lowell and Suzanne and Thomas Perry of Londonderry, New Hampshire, will hike the entire 21.5 Wapack Trail, which runs north-south from Ashburnham and Ashby,…
Read More »A tale from the pandemic . . . DON’T WALK AWAY by Jerry Bisantz I’ve become a whiner. I hate this Covid bullshit. This assault on my life. This pent up anger at not being able to sit at a goddamn bar, watch a Sox game, drink a beer. People…
Read More »Diary in the Time of Coronavirus (7) by Paul Hudon 24 May, 2020 ‘The fitful apprehension of history’ is a phrase I picked up four years ago come September. Apparently it was coined by Fredric Jameson, “an American Marxist philosopher.” This poses a problem because the phrase could be very…
Read More »Poet and activist Emily Ferrara of Lowell has become a field worker for the 2020 Census. On her blog, The Body Politic, she recently wrote about the grass roots work of the census is about to resume. Thanks to Emily for allowing us to cross-post her article here. The 2020…
Read More »Diary in the Time of Coronavirus (6) by Paul Hudon 17 May Today would be Bob’s 95th birthday, my aforementioned brother, the navy guy. He died in November 2013, ‘’in the 89th year of his age.’’ I prefer that antique way of telling a person’s age. It’s more accurate because…
Read More »Isolation Scenes IV By Doug Sparks One: While driving the backroads of Groton, I waited for a turkey vulture to clear the road. He had been eating the guts of a turtle, whose shell was shimmering in the sun’s radiance. The vulture flew to the top of a nearby tree…
Read More »Diary in the Time of Coronavirus (5) by Paul Hudon *10th May River hawk glides into view, low-flying, heading west. Spirit lifting visual context. Escape. *11th May When Death is roaming the streets of your city, can God thinking be far behind? God, the paramour, the paradox, the paradigm of…
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