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Lawrence, Massachusetts 1908 Vintage Post Card The pot is being stirred in the city of Lawrence as the days are counted down for the return of sufficient signatures to recall Mayor William Lantigua. The recall group led by the Rev. Edwin Rodriguez and Wayne Hayes has a reported 1,100 petition…
Read More »1. It’s not light reading, but the Vietnam War novel “Matterhorn” by Karl Marlentes has been good reading for long sunny weekend sessions in the backyard for the past couple of weeks. I had a difficult time climbing the front half of the Matterhorn narrative, so to speak, so I skimmed and…
Read More »For you word-smithers out there, don’t miss Jan Freeman’s “The Word” in today’s Boston Globe. While touching on other US vs UK word wars such as “cookies” versus “biscuits” and the quite opposite texture of a Brit chip and a a handful of Lays – Freeman zeros in on the…
Read More »From boston.com there’s an Associated Press report on the latest developments in the struggle over raising the national debt ceiling in Washington, D.C. Read the article here, and get the Globe if you want more. Note the quote from President Obama to a group of students as he was talking about the…
Read More »This is a publicity picture from Austin, Texas, but you get the idea looking at this image that the Court Yard Hounds are all in with their instruments and voices when they hit the stage. Martie Maguire, left, and Emily Robison did not for a moment trade on their fame…
Read More »Mass Moments reminds us that on this day July 16, 1997, a tentative deal was announced by Borden to save the famous Prince pasta plant in Lowell. Hoping that the “Spaghettiville” plant would continue to be one of the city’s largest employers, Senator Ted Kennedy acquired federal funds targeted to…
Read More »John F. Kerry (D) Massachusetts is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We know him well in the Greater Lowell environs – as a war hero, an anti-war activist, the Democratic nominee for congress from the 5th district, as an assistant district attorney for Middlesex County, as Lt.…
Read More »According to a news report by writer Mark Arsenault at the MetroDesk of boston.com, the Archdiocese of Boston through decrees made by Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley is moving to sell six shuttered churches. The decrees made according to canon law remove the sacred standing of the church buildings making them…
Read More »The Beat Museum in San Francisco is now a contributing blogger for the Huffington Post. Here is a recent post about the forthcoming film version of Kerouac’s legendary novel “On the Road.”
Read More »Wayne Peters came to Lowell to serve as Superintendent of Schools. Later he was elected to the Lowell School Committee and then to the City Council. His son, Jim Peters, a frequent contributor to this site, informs us that his dad passed away this morning in Florida and offers the…
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