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To honor of Lucy Larcom’s birthday on this day – March 5, 1824 – this exerpt from her memoir – “A New England Girlhood’ – seems appropriate. Larcom was reflecting on her days in the sisterhood we know as the Lowell mill girls: In recalling those years of my girlhood at Lowell,…
Read More »From today’s Boston Herald – the Inside Track – and the beat goes on… . . . The Pride of Lowell “Irish” Micky Ward and his bro, Dicky Eklund, fresh from their appearance at the Academy Awards, where their story, “The Fighter,” took home two Oscars, delivering their message of…
Read More »MassMoments reminds us today of the Boston Massacre that played out over several days in early March of 1779. Boston was a tense town with many in the populace unhappy with British troops in occupation. For many months there were taunts and skirmishes with the troops that culminated in actions and…
Read More »We’re on the March or in the March or however we want to say it. This month and next month are huge for cultural activities in the city. Here’s a sample and by no means everything this month: Today and tomorrow: XFest 2011 at 119 Gallery, 119 Chelmsford St (www.119gallery.org)…
Read More »On this day – March 4, 1861 – Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th President of the United States. The Inaugural Address given that day was long-awaited, historic, eloquent and far-reaching. Would Lincoln threaten slavery in the states? Would he enforce federal law? Seek returned of seized federal properties? How would he handle the…
Read More »Under extremely heavy security that included roof-top sharpshooters and two artillery batteries on the flanks of the US Capitol, Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office 150 years ago today as the 16th President of the United States. In some ways, Lincoln’s ascension to the office was anti-climatic: it was…
Read More »Read Tim Egan in the NYTimes today if you want to see what’s rotting the civic culture of the United States. If a person as prominent as former Ark. Gov. Huckabee can say what he said about President Obama and not get ostracized overnight and shunted off the public stage,…
Read More »Corey Sciuto on Facebook posted about a bioregional quiz, which prompted me to share this information about the online bioregional journal “The Bridge Review: Merrimack Valley Culture” that was published between 1997 and 2005. Five issues of the eclectic anthology were published. “The Bridge Review” branched off, so to speak,…
Read More »Mass Moments reminds us that on this day – March 4, 1872 – the first edition of the Boston Globe “hit the streets” as a newspaper intended by its owners to be “of the first class.” Funded by six wealthy Bostonians – it was intended as not just a business venture…
Read More »1893 – Indoor Hockey Game – Victoria Skaking Rink. Montreal Canada With the National Hockey League now scheduling a nostalgic Winter Classic out-door hockey game annually on New Years Day, it seems appropriate to take a look at when and how hockey went “in-doors.” Not surprisingly, the modern game of hockey found…
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