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Today, somebody said to me that this blog, with its various features and contributors, is Lowell’s version of the huffingtonpost. Thank you. I don’t think Dick will sell it to AOL, however.
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Documenting the 2011 City Council race
Last week I posted some video of the City Council candidate forum on public safety and some readers indicated it might be useful to put links to the video in a place that could be easily retrieved throughout the campaign. I’ve done this by creating a “2011 Lowell City Council…
Read More »BBC News Visits U Mass Lowell / Queens College Dig in County Tyrone
The Hugh Cummisky Homestead in County Tyrone from the Lowell Irish website On this blog we have followed the joint archaeological dig project between U Mass Lowell and Queens College in Belfast, Ireland. The project began last year with a dig on land in the front yard St. Patrick’s Church…
Read More »‘The Names’ by Billy Collins
“The Names” Yesterday, I lay awake in the palm of the night. A soft rain stole in, unhelped by any breeze, And when I saw the silver glaze on the windows, I started with A, with Ackerman, as it happened, Then Baxter and Calabro, Davis and Eberling, names falling into…
Read More »“September 11” by Steve O’Connor
Frequent contributor Steve O’Connor wrote the following essay three years ago, on the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. He’s allowing us to post it once again: Seven years ago today, I was teaching a class at Greater Lowell Tech as a few hundred miles south of us, men guided…
Read More »“9/11 Remembrance: Words are not enough” by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. My daughter-in-law’s cousin Peter Goodrich, 33, of Sudbury died on Flight 175 that crashed into the World Trade Center South Tower. It seems that almost everyone in Massachusetts is connected in some way with one of the victims…
Read More »Pentagon 9/11 Memorial
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Read More »Mass Moments: Remembering Dracut Farmer and Pilot John Ogonowski
On this day September 11, 2001: …in 2001, American Airlines pilot John Ogonowski made the familiar drive from his farm in Dracut to Logan airport. He was sorry he would miss a special event scheduled for later that day. Federal officials were coming to inspect the work of Cambodian immigrant…
Read More »Notes from September 11, 2001
Within days of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, I sat down with a pencil and a yellow legal pad and made some notes about what had happened. There were no blogs back then so I never shared them with anyone. While cleaning out a drawer this summer I found…
Read More »Newspaper headlines, post September 11, 2001
I saved some of the front pages in the days following the 9-11 terrorist attack. Here’s a video that shares the headlines from that collection: [youtube]mdPa0G-Rg1w[/youtube]
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