In his latest commentary, E. J. Dionne of the Washington Post group tries to buck up the Democrats who got whacked around on November 2. He points out that the GOP fiercely attacked and stubbornly opposed President Obama for most of the past two years, and came back with a…
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Columnist David Brooks in today’s NYTimes lays out his vision of how to get the nation back in gear. I won’t link to the column, but I will link to the Readers’ Comments, which are the better part of the discussion. Read the readers here, and get the NYT if…
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Cut from American Cloth (4) Congresswoman (“Mrs. Rogers”) Rogers was in the middle of a line of Republican U.S. Representatives from the Lowell area who controlled the seat from 1859 to 1974, with the exception of a single two-year term for Democrat John K. Tarbox (1875 – 1877). It took…
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Veterans Day falls on November 11th to mark the anniversary of the armistice ending the First World War. Perhaps no other conflict in western history has generated more acknowledgement of the savageness of our species. The furnaces of the Holocaust represent the result of a society gone mad, led by…
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Another story from Eileen Loucraft about a veteran from Lowell who died in the service of his country during World War One, this one from the September 30, 1920 newspaper: The body of the late Sergt. George W. Brick, son of Mrs. Winnifred Brick of 119 Pleasant street, a former…
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More than one hundred Greater Lowell veterans, their families, elected officials and others from the community gathered at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium this morning for a Veterans Day ceremony. Greater Lowell Veterans Council Commander Bob Cronin, shown above on the stage of the Auditorium, served as Master of Ceremonies. State…
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Lowell photographer Anne Ruthman yesterday documented the Veterans Day ceremony at UMass Lowell. See her fine images here on her blog.
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From the UMass Lowell Honors Program: “The Honors Program is proud to welcome the award-winning filmmaker Henry Ferrini to campus on November 18 as this year’s Honors Community Fellow. Ferrini will screen his 30-minute film, Lowell Blues, at the UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center, 50 Warren Street in Lowell, at 4:00, followed…
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A few days ago we posted a Veterans Day essay by Steve O’Connor. Steve ended with a passage about the grave of Edward Rowe who was killed in World War One. After reading the essay, our World War One archivist, Eileen Loucraft, found the 1918 newspaper story announcing Rowe’s death.…
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This blog is in good historical company as a publication that regularly features poetry. Read Ralph Waldo Emerson’s four poems in the first issue of the Atlantic magazine, published on November 9, 1857.
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