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Yesterday I took a ride to Lexington, MA. I arrived shortly before the annual Patriot’s Day Parade and several hours after the re-enactment of the famous battle that took place on the Lexington Green on April 19, 1775, a battle recognized as the start of the American Revolution. In the…
Read More »On this day – April 18, 2001 – John R. McNamara, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston; retired Bishop of the Merrimack Region; retired Rear-Admiral US Navy, former Chief of Chaplains and winner of the Bronze Star for service with the US Marine Corps – was laid to rest. In…
Read More »From History.com – On this day in history – April 18, 1775 – … British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the American arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots…
Read More »Here’s a spring poem that was written by my Andover friend Steve Perrin, one of the founding members of the Poets’ Lab that met at Andover’s Memorial Library between 1976 and 1978. Other writers who attended included Ken Skulski, Cynthia Ward, Alice Davis, E.F.Weisslitz, Eric Linder, Wayne Nalbandian, and Tom…
Read More »MassMoments reminds us that on this day April 17, 1893 – Lucy Larcom – author, newspaper writer, poet, Lowell mill girl – died in Boston. In her autobiography “A New England Girlhood” – Larcom captured an element of the “Lowell Experiment” seen through the eyes of that Yankee mill girl toiling in the early…
Read More »The next regular breakfast meeting of Greater Lowell Area Democrats will be held this coming Saturday April 16, 20011 at 8am at the Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford. The regular agenda will include: ongoing topics such as the status of the 5th District and legislative redistricting plans and the Joint Redistricting Committee hearing…
Read More »Mass Moments reminds us that on this day – April 13, 1933 – the first enrollees in the Massachusetts Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) arrived at Fort Devens in Ayer. Creating the CCC was an effort by newly elected President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to attack “the catastrophic unemployment and economic dislocation…
Read More »President Obama at the Lincoln Memorial on April 9, 2011 the same day he signed a short-term continuing resolution bill that will keep the federal government operating long enough for Congress to vote on a budget deal reached late Friday. From the House Appropriations Committee – from Ranking Democrat Rep…
Read More »Today – April 11 – is the Feastday of Saint Marguerite d’Youville (1701-1771), a French Canadian widow who founded the religious order – the Order of Sisters of Charity of Montreal – commonly known as the Grey Nuns of Montreal. Founded to give shelter to the poor, the Grey Nuns later took over…
Read More »Mike Daley from Tewksbury has come up with one crazy, fun idea. For one year (that’s 2011) Mike is going to give people a choice of two stunts and they select the one they’d like to see him do. People cast their votes on Mike’s YouTube Channel. He calls it…
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