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South Common Haiku Set
South Common Haiku Set . Red bow on blue door sunlit beyond the frost park on a new-year day. . —Paul Marion (c) 2012
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Happy New Year: ‘Take-Out’ by Richard Marion
This one is for everyone who will be ordering Chinese food for New Year’s Eve. “Take-Out” by Richard Marion (c) 2011 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »The Power of Place: Niagara Falls, N.Y.,Checks In
Niagara Falls and Pawtucket Falls. You wouldn’t think they have a lot in common because of the vast difference in scale, but each of these water features is a defining element of the community that grew where the water rushed by. Read what’s being talked about in Niagara Falls on…
Read More »More Inauguration Days
Last night I wrote about Lowell City Council inaugurations from 1966, 1970, 1990, 1992 and 1994. While the day should be a happy one for all involved, more often than not the election of the city’s mayor, which is the first act of the council after taking the oath of…
Read More »James P. Scondras Memorial Gymnasium, Rogers School
Places gather meaning from the names we give to them. It’s a basic human impulse to give a name to a place. The original gestures pass into history and are sometimes overlooked as we live day to day. People who are new to a place may not know the source of the…
Read More »MassMoments Remembers Movie Mogel Meyer in the Merrimack Valley
As talk heats up about the nominees for the Golden Globe and Oscar awards, it seems timely that Mass Moments remind us of the early days of a famous Hollywood movie mogel Louis B. Meyer. The roots of his success can be found here in the Merrimack Valley – in…
Read More »City Council Inaugurations through the years
My dad was elected to the Lowell City Council in 1965 and served continuously until 2005 – a term of service that spanned 40 years, 20 elections and 20 inauguration ceremonies. I think I made it to 18 of the inaugurations, missing 1980 and 1982 while stationed in Germany during…
Read More »South Common Haiku Set (II)
In November and early December, I posted a new haiku almost every day on my Facebook page. I gathered up the first batch and posted them here on rh.com about a month ago. For those who do not use Facebook and may be interested in the poems, following is another…
Read More »Woody Guthrie Due for Major Tribute in Tulsa; New Guthrie Center Seen as Arts Spark for Downtown Redevelopment
Reporter Patricia Cohen in today’s NYTimes described how folksinger Woody Guthrie will finally get his due in the place of his roots, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Local activists kept the tribute flame alive for the past many years, and now the Kaiser Foundation, based in Tulsa, has put up $3 million to…
Read More »Lies About Equality in America and Elsewhere?
Controversial Canadian author Steve Marche shares his view “That we are not all created equal” in his monthly column – “A Thousand Words about Our Culture” – in the January 2012 of Esquire magazine. Here is a taste of his view – then read on for the reasons behind the view. He assails both the…
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