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Yesterday, Saturday, Rosemary and I did a Merrimack Valley “stay-cation” excursion with an excellent lunch at Salvatore’s Italian restaurant on the riverside in Lawrence (Romana & Caprese salads, chicken croccante with teriyaki sriracha glaze, and green pepper & onion pizza, with fresh sangria to drink) and then a free self-guided…
Read More »A year ago today the voters of Tewksbury at a Special Town Meeting spoke for quality of life and other community concerns. A gathering of 2,563 voters officially assembled at Tewksbury High School for a Special Town to Meeting. The issue – a Slots Parlor proposal… it was to be build on the…
Read More »On this day August 9, 1852, Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden; or, Life in the Woods” was published. “Walden” details Thoreau’s experiences over the course of two years living in a woodland cabin he built near Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. Notes about the author from The Thoreau Society – which…
Read More »My staples are still holding, so looking for fresh food today, I started locally at the East Street Farm Stand (Farmer Dave’s) in Tewksbury… my cache was a few small peaches, tomatoes, butter beans, a pepper, 6 ears of corn… the stand was busy and had just opened for the…
Read More »Greater Lowell Music Theatre performances on Friday, Aug. 1, at 7.30 pm; Saturday, Aug 2, at 7.30 pm; and Sunday, Aug 3, at 2 pm in Durgin Concert Hall at UMass Lowell, 35 Wilder Street. Parking available in the lot at Wilder and Broadway on the University’s South Campus. For…
Read More »Here are two articles for your Saturday morning reading. Both note how America and Americans address problems. The first from Ann McFeatters – a columnist who has covered the White House for years – speaks in more general terms – “Americans sure have odd ways of dealing with their problems“…
Read More »Just two years ago we were noting that nationally-known columnist George Will was weighing-in on the brouhaha surrounding the perhaps “infamous” Motel Caswell located on Rte. 38 in Tewksbury. The family-owned business in operation for over fifty years had become the focus of a planned take-over by the feds –…
Read More »Henry and John Thoreau took themselves on a two-week boat trip up the Concord and Merrimack Rivers at the end of the summer in 1839. Henry wrote a book about their adventure, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, published in 1849; he paid for it to be published…
Read More »On July 2, 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signed in to law the Land Grant Act passed by Congress in June to provide funding for higher education. The bill was also known as the Morrill Act, named after its sponsor, Congressman Justin Morrill of Vermont. The measure gave every state, including…
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