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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.
Read More »In his opinion column today, NYTimes writer David Brooks muses about his lifelong affection for the New York Mets baseball team. As he usually does, Brooks expands from particular to universal and winds up making an observation about what makes people truly happy. In his analysis he uses two American…
Read More »Nancye Tuttle of the Sun has the story on the Lowell celebration for what would be Jack Kerouac’s 90th birthday this coming Monday, March 12.
Read More »Boston Magazine salutes Jack Kerouac of Lowell for all his writerly accomplishments.
Read More »The Winter 2012 edition of the Boston College Magazine arrived in the mail today. As always it is chock full of interesting and enlightening articles. One such article “Questioning Authority, Keeping the Faith” has some very interesting statistics about American Catholics. The article was based on the opening remarks at…
Read More »Here’s the Wikipedia entry on Joseph Albert “Skippy” Roberge of Lowell, who played several years for the Boston Braves. He also played for several minor league clubs, including Toronto (see below). Here’s an extended description of his life and sports career from Baseball in Wartime on the web.
Read More »Our friends at leftinlowell.com posted lively about the Hockey East playoffs starting tonight at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell with the River Hawks taking on Providence College. Click here for all the details.
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… Charles Dickens Quoting the opening words from A Tale of…
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