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On November 26, 2000, I wrote an account of that years presidential election – which had yet to be decided, so I added an epilogue on January 2, 2001. With tomorrow’s election looming, I decided to share my story from 16 years ago, with the hope that history does not…
Read More »Ribbon-cutting at the restored “Pawtucket Prism” (web photo courtesy of Marie Sweeney). From left, Jay Linnehan, Steve Joncas, Paul Marion, Celeste Bernardo, Mayor Edward Kennedy, Jim Campbell, Nancy Donahue, Belinda Juran, Evan Schapiro, and artist Michio Ihara. About 75 people yesterday attended the re-dedication of the “Pawtucket Prism” sculpture by…
Read More »Tuesday, November 1, 2016 4:00 p.m. – Speaking Program & Reception UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center 50 Warren Street, Lowell The Pawtucket Prism sculpture was created and installed by world-renowned artist Michio Ihara in 1987 at the Lower Locks where the Pawtucket Canal and Concord River meet. It’s…
Read More »Rainbow this morning at 7 AM over Meetinghouse Hill and the Eliot Church in the South Common Historic District in Lowell.
Read More »Pawtucket Prism Unveiling Tuesday, November 1, 2016 4:00 p.m. – Speaking Program & Reception UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center 50 Warren Street, Lowell The Pawtucket Prism sculpture was created and installed by world-renowned artist Michio Ihara in 1987 at the Lower Locks where the Pawtucket Canal and Concord…
Read More »Another essay by Bob Hodge, a 1973 graduate of Lowell High School, a 1990 graduate of University of Lowell, and one of the greatest runners to come from Lowell – ever. Bob’s previous essay, Running Down a Dream: Cohasset by the Sea Road Race, April 1978, was published on October…
Read More »Lowell’s Big Plans By James Ostis Lowell was the most significant planned industrial city in the early United States. In the 1820s, a group of Boston investors set their sights on the water power potential of the Merrimack River and systematically created a new community based on maximizing the development…
Read More »Carrying a Torch for ‘Ti Jean’ We were talking about Bob Dylan getting the Nobel Prize for Literature last week and ole Jack Kerouac having received nothing in his life by way of awards and prizes, and so my friend and I went to the famous gravesite in Edson Cemetery…
Read More »Rick Sherburne, Julie Mofford, and Tom Mofford (photo courtesy of Rick Sherburne on Facebook) We lost a poet today, Tom Mofford, husband of our occasional contributor Julie Mofford, both of them long-time friends of mine. Tom passed away this morning, I learned from Julie’s message to our mutual friend Rick…
Read More »Lowell has a great tradition of running and road races that is carried on today by Greater Lowell Road Runners. Last Sunday’s Baystate Marathon, one of the preeminent qualifying races for the Boston Marathon, is strong evidence of Lowell’s continued status as a center of running in New England. One…
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