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Cliff at Right Side has a detailed and helpful report on the meeting between Sen. Brown’s staff and a host of public officials and community folks in Pawtucketville. Read the notes here and Cliff’s take on what’s “right” and fair for the citizens concerned about proposed changes to the dam.
Read More »Through the years I’ve often seen favorable references to the “Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant” but had yet to read the book. With the arrival of 2011 and the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, I concluded now was the time to remedy that omission. Having just finished the book,…
Read More »MassMoments reminds us today that on this day – January 21, 1861 – the Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment was organized. Of note – this force was composed of men from neighboring cities in the Merrimack Valley – textile workers from Lowell and Lawrence. Later in April – in the city of Baltimore the…
Read More »John Fitzgeral Kennedy of Massachusetts – 35th President of the United States – January 20, 1961 – delivering his Inaugural Address at the US Capitol. Caroline Kennedy and one hundred members of the Kennedy family have gathered in Washington, D.C. today to celebrate and remember the 50th anniversary of her…
Read More »I’m an occasional watcher of the food-focused networks – especially the Cake Boss, Cupcake Wars with an episode or two of Iron Chef or Worst Chefs thrown-in for good measure. Really though – I’m no foodie – yet I do enjoy local restaurant fare from LaBoniche, Cobblestones and Cavaleiro’s to the comfort…
Read More »R. Sargent Shriver – Peace Corps Director, “architect” of the Johnson administration’s War on Poverty dies at 95. Bono, the Irish lead singer of the band U2 and a co-founder of the advocacy group ONE and (Product)RED, is a a regular contributing columnist for The New York Times. Today in his…
Read More »Brian Williams in 2006 reported on the back story of Robert Frost’s poem written for President Kennedy. See the clip of Frost reading and find out what happened. This is our Robert Frost of the Merrimack Valley, who grew up in Lawrence and graduated from Lawrence High School. Here’s the…
Read More »On this day January 20, 1961 – John Fitzgerald Kennedy of Massachusetts was sworn-in as the 35th President of the United States. On January 20, 1961, on the newly renovated east front of the United States Capitol, John Fitzgerald Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th president of the…
Read More »MassMoments reminds us this morning that founder of the American Antiquarian Society and Revolutionary activist, writer, printer, publisher – Isaiah Thomas was born on January 19, 1749 in Boston, Massachusetts. …in 1749, the Patriot printer Isaiah Thomas was born. In 1770, Thomas established the Massachusetts Spy, the first newspaper…
Read More »Several hundred people gathered yesterday at the Wyndham Hotel in Andover, Mass., for the Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast sponsored by the Merrimack Valley Branch of the NAACP. Branch President Rev. Roger A. Sawtelle of Lowell said one of the things he enjoys about the yearly gathering is that…
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