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Today’s installment of our World War One remembrance (thanks to the efforts of Eileen Loucraft) is a summary of a letter from Edward Nelson to his parents that he wrote while in France in December 1917 which is before the American forces were fully engaged in combat. Corporal Edward Nelson…
Read More »This past summer during a vacation in Chicago I visited the Museum of Science of Industry which was fascinating in its own right but it was also on my things-to-see list because it is the one surviving building from the 1893 World Columbian Exposition (shown above). That world’s fair brought…
Read More »John Lennon’s image will appear on a commemorative coin issued in England thanks to a popular vote conducted by the Royal Mint. He joins other notable persons who have received this “honour,” including Shakespeare, Churchill, Darwin, and Florence Nightingale. If England can manage this kind of tribute for John Lennon,…
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Read More »On November 6, 1860, voters across America went to the polls and elected Abraham Lincoln president which set the stage for the American Civil War. Here are the results of the election: Abraham Lincoln (Republican) received 180 electoral votes and 1,865,908 popular votes John C Breckinridge (Southern Democratic) received 72…
Read More »Cardinal Sean O’Malley commented on his blog this week about his visit to Lowell last Saturday evening. First he celebrated the 4 o’clock Mass at the Immaculate Conception Parish. The Immaculate happens to be my parish – Bill and I attended the Mass and the D’Youville event. The Cardinal writes: I spent Saturday…
Read More »From the NYTimes website, here are several poems in which the writers speak to the daylight savings time experience. It’s a big deal when the NYT gives this kind of premium space to poets. The contributors are well known.
Read More »The New York Times notes the passing onTuesday of Jule Sugarman – the primary architect of the 45-year old Head Start program. Jule Sugarman, a primary architect of Head Start, the federal support program for millions of poor preschoolers, died Tuesday at his home in Seattle. He was 83… Mr.…
Read More »Cliff on right-side-of-lowell has a new link to a blog by freelance reporter Michael Yon in the AfPak zone that includes a new stunning photograph of Mount Everest. Yon made a side trip to the Himalayas. Here’s the link to see the image.
Read More »For today’s paper, Sun reporters Andrea Gregory and John Collins wrote a moving account of the last hours of Lowell resident Judyann Lamothe’s life and gave readers a sense of her short life, including the brights spots and challenges. She was from my neighborhood, someone who lived at Bishop Markham…
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