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At last night’s City Council forum at the Dom Polski Club, several political activists who are (relatively) new to the Lowell scene, didn’t quite know what to make of council candidate Fred Doyle. By historic standards, Fred was on the tamer side last night. To give you a taste of…
Read More »On this day in history – September 21, 1897 – as noted by NEWSEUM: Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since…
Read More »The Policy Policy Polling (PPP) firm – with a track record of being right – gives us a snapshot in time in the possible Elizabeth Warren versus Scott Brown match-up for U. S. Senate in 2012. Noting that the poll was taken over the weekend right after a week of…
Read More »Poet Kay Ryan, who read her poems to an overflow crowd at UMass Lowell last spring, and three members of the Harvard University faculty are among the 22 recipients of the 2011 “genius grants” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The Harvard professors are economist Roland Fryer,…
Read More »Next time you walk into the Hall of Flags of the Lowell Memorial Auditorium, glance to your left and see the above portrait of General George S Patton. You might ask, why does a painting of that particular soldier hang here in Lowell? A small entry in the March 13,…
Read More »Ed Kilgore in The New Republic boils down the ingredients of national Republic Party policy positions. Is this what it has come to? Looks like a stark contrast for Nov. 2012. Read his short piece here, which I picked up from realclearpolitics.com
Read More »The Sesquicentennial of the Civil War. Remembrance of the Civil War and the role played by the city of Lowell and its citizenry continues as a theme as the Lowell Historical Society opens its 2011-2012 program season with a presentation entitled “J.C. Ayer & Company and the Civil War.” The…
Read More »For those interested in Lowell’s cemeteries, there are several tours scheduled this coming weekend: On Saturday, September 24 at 10 am, Dave McKean will lead his annual tour of St. Patrick’s Cemetery. More information about the tour is available on Dave’s blog, Lowell Irish. On Friday, September 23 at 1…
Read More »The American Scholar has published an excerpt from the forthcoming memoir by the dean of literary agents in New York City, Sterling Lord. He became Jack Kerouac’s agent in the mid-1950s, and in the early 60s linked up with Ken Kesey, who had just written “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s…
Read More »For another look at the rise and probable fall of John B. Barranco read the article by staff writer Michael Rezendes in today’s Boston Globe. Barranco ran both the Merrimack Education Collaborative and the Merrimack Education Center – an agency and a purported non-profit – in a manner that Gregory…
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