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Congratulations to Franco American School Principal Lorraine Richard, SCQ, Director of Development Colleen Tully and the Board of Directors of the Franco American School, former state Sen. Steven Panagiokos, and all the generous craftspeople and donors for the extraordinary restoration of the Way of the Cross at the Grotto of…
Read More »The world premiere of Jack Kerouac’s play “Beat Generation” made news coast to coast and around the world this week. Among the media outlets that published articles and reviews or broadcast reports were the Associated Press, Rolling Stone, WBUR and WGBH radio in Boston, the Sun, Howl in Lowell and…
Read More »The second in my series on the patent medicine industry in Lowell: James Cook Ayer was born in 1818 in Groton, Connecticut and moved to Lowell at age thirteen where he served as apprentice in James Robbins’s apothecary shop on Lowell and also studied medicine under the tutelage of Dr.…
Read More »The Lowell Historical Society announced that the Edson Cemetery Tour scheduled for this Saturday October 13th has been postponed. Kim Zunino who designed the tour is unable to guide the tour so it will be rescheduled to another weekend. We will post the information here when available.
Read More »The world premiere of Jack Kerouac’s only full-length play, “Beat Generation,” drew a standing ovation from the opening night crowd last night at Merrimack Repertory Theatre. The production is a language fest with all the mundane and sublime elements that are expected in Kerouac’s writing. The play jumped off the…
Read More »Recent news about the “compounding pharmacy” that provided tainted drugs that have now led to dozens of cases of meningitis got me thinking about the US Pharmaceutical Industry which had its roots in Lowell, a national leader in medicine production in nineteenth century America. One of the largest manufacturers was…
Read More »Maybe the guy who came up with this six months ago was onto something. Keep it short and simple.
Read More »The biggest surprise to me this fall is the absence of massive youth demonstrations in favor of President Obama or at least in opposition to the trickle-down, “voodoo” economics that is still the favorite approach of the national Republican leaders. I thought for sure after last fall and winter that…
Read More »For the past few weeks, I’ve been posting new South Common haiku on my Facebook page. For those who are not into the FB thing, following are some that got the best responses.—PM . Return of the South Common Haiku . Mourning doves en groupe. Red hawk atop gray steeple.…
Read More »It’s been a little painful to read and hear all the complaints about how poorly President Obama presented his case in the first debate in Denver. I have no idea why he was “flat” or “didn’t show up,” as some commentators have described it, but it made me think about…
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