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Joe Assenza served two tours in Iraq with the US Marines and likes remembering the small, seemingly inconsequential details of his time in and awaiting combat. Don Polsi drew number 25 in the draft lottery and was soon an Army artilleryman in Vietnam. Frank Hickey had a talent for music…
Read More »Jen Myers of the Sun got the scoop on today’s announcement by Merrimack Repertory Theater and UMass Lowell that they will team up on the world premiere of Jack Kerouac’s only full-length play, “Beat Generation,” as the centerpiece of the Jack Kerouac Literary Festival this October. The news leaped across…
Read More »UMass Lowell’s 2012 Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project, will testify on security conditions in Sudan and South Sudan for the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations with Sen John Kerry presiding this Wednesday. Mar 14 2012 10:00 am Timezone: America/New York The U.S.…
Read More »U. S. Representative Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts presides over the House Chamber in this image from 1926. (Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives) For many years Edith Nourse Rogers held the record as the longest serving woman in the Congress. Rogers followed her deceased husband John Jacob Rogers…
Read More »Every once in a while there is a photo posted on this site of politicos from our Lowell/Greater Lowell past. I came across this photo posted elsewhere by LHS board member and young activist Lowellian Corey Sciuto. Do you remember these players and anything about their connections? Where was the…
Read More »The design drawing above illustrates some of the ideas being considered for enhancements at the South Common as soon as there is funding for the project. Here’s more on the South Common Earth Day event coming up on Sunday, April 22, 2 to 4.30 pm, at the Edith Nourse Rogers…
Read More »Note this current photo feature on slate.com about “Jack Kerouac and the Beats.” See the 21 images here.
Read More »Historians, genealogists and other reseachers are eagerly awaiting the release of the 1940 U. S. Census on April 2, 2012. Along with access to information about individuals – age, residence, family status, occupation and workplace, and so much more, there are nuggets to be gleaned about relationships, life and life style…
Read More »Sarah Vogelsong of Richmond, Virginia, and the Washington Independent Review of Books, an online publication, reviewed the new novel by Jack Kerouac, “The Sea Is My Brother,” published in England and the United States. Kerouac wrote the book in 1942-43, when he was 20 years old, much of it originally composed by hand…
Read More »The “On the Road” movie trailer was released today. See it here.
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