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While nobody was looking, writer-actor-director-baseball wiseman-cultural commentator-allied blogger Jack Neary packed his stuff and moved from Lowell to southern New Hampshire, just over the border in Derry. After Robert Frost trying to run a farm in that town many years ago, this is probably the biggest literary news in Derry. Jack’s…
Read More »The ritual has been going on since the late ’80s now, but anyone with a feeling for the pulse of the city can feel the urban heart pumping at a faster rate starting mid-week of Lowell Folk Festival weekend. It’s always the last full weekend of July—full weekend—which is why…
Read More »Robert Scheer in the online Huffington Post says the GOP will pay politically for their double-standard on demanding pay-as-you-go for jobless benefits but not for their standard proposed upper tier tax cuts. Read his rant here, which I picked up from realclearpolitics.com
Read More »Hillary Rodham Clinton speaking in Beijing, China in 1995 I would like to thank the Secretary General of the United Nations for inviting me to be part of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. This is truly a celebration – a celebration of the contributions women make in every…
Read More »It’s not a scene from the 1966 movie “The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming!” – it’s 1918 and there really was a submarine – a German U-boat – off the shores of Cape Cod. From today’s Mass Moments: ON THIS DAY… in 1918, people in the Cape Cod…
Read More »If you are in downtown Lowell for the Lowell Folk Festival this weekend, and everyone reading this should be going to the Festival for at least a few hours, then walk to the intersection of Market, Central, and Prescott streets and look for the Printer on Prescott Artists Research Center.…
Read More »Well, we said this blog is about History, and there were people in Lowell dancing to disco, so this item fits. All-Star writer Dave Daniel from Westford and, let’s face it, Lowell, too, has a new review of a history of disco on the “Internet Review of Books.” Literature is…
Read More »One of our friends at the National Park Service forwarded this link to a blog post about Lowell, the Boott Mills Museum, John Greenleaf Whittier, and the thundering concert last weekend from the folks with Cake (the band): https://www.cakemusic.com/Band/band.html
Read More »In 1956: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Lafcadio Orlovsky and Gregory Corso – prominent menbers of the Beat Generation. In the New York Times Book section this week writer Janet Maslin takes a look at a recent publication – “Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters” (also reviewed in…
Read More »One reason history is my favorite subject is that it is composed of stories that, though true, often defy belief. Such is the case with the first controlled nuclear reaction which occurred on December 2, 1942 on a squash court under the bleachers at the University of Chicago football stadium…
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