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Today’s Parade magazine is largely devoted to the 150th anniversary of the Civil War which begins this Tuesday (April 12, the day that Fort Sumter was fired upon). Turner Classic Movie host Robert Osborne lists his “five top Civil War films.” Among them are three that are to be shown…
Read More »President Obama at the Lincoln Memorial (Web photo courtesy of NYTimes) This image of President Obama on Saturday greeting people who were able to visit the Lincoln Memorial because the federal government did not shut down prompted me to post the following prose poem written seven years ago when my family visited Washington,…
Read More »Boston.com and the Globe this morning report that Lawrence resident Anthony Nunez, a civil engineer, has stepped up to call for volunteers to clean up the parks and roadsides of his hometown. He’s mad as hell about the trash and not going to take it anymore. Read the article here,…
Read More »Shakespeare will return to Boarding House Park this summer with a free performance thanks to the Moses Greeley Parker Lectures and Lowell Summer Music Series. On Sunday, August 14, at 4 pm, see the New England Shakespeare Company’s production of “Measure for Measure.” For news on the whole schedule announced…
Read More »Lowell-based fiction writer Stephen O’Connor will be appearing at the Arts League of Lowell at 22 Shattuck Street on Sunday, April 17 at 4:00pm. O’Connor’s stories and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals. He is the author of Smokestack Lightning, a collection of short stories set mainly in Lowell,…
Read More »On April 7, the UMass Lowell Center for Women & Work presented its annual “Splash! Awards” to Irene Egan of the Visiting Nurses Association of Greater Lowell, Rosemary Noon of the Lowell Plan Inc., and Allegra Williams of the City of Lowell’s Planning and Development Division. The awards were made…
Read More »CARL RUSSO/Staff photo – The sign on the Lawton’s building at Canal Street and Broadway in Lawrence has been redone as “Lawrence Famous Franks” in a style similar to the original. Bedeviled by an ever-weakening embankment, constant canal-related shut-downs, proposed plans of Enel and a kerfuffle over stand ownership, Joanne Curley…
Read More ». rainy night a hole in the radio where a ballgame should be . —Ed Markowski (c) 2007
Read More »Hear WBZ Radio’s Carl Stevens read his poem for opening day at Fenway, urging the Red Sox to put their playing shoes on and win.
Read More ». river will give and give until it takes away water pours heartless . —Sean Thibodeau (c) 2011
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