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Web image by anthony92931 courtesy of commons.wikimedia Along with Henri Marchand’s “fruitcake” essay and my “Oranges at Christmas” essay, the re-appearance of this poem has become part of the Christmas tradition for our blog. I wrote the first draft of this poem in 1976, and worked on it on-and-off for a long…
Read More »This essay was first heard on the “Sunrise” radio program of WUML, 92.5 FM, at UMass Lowell around 2007. Executive producer Chris Dunlap assembled writers in the area for the daily essay feature, a popular component of the morning public affairs show. I’ve shared this essay with rh.com readers for several…
Read More »Thanks to Vincent Valentine, founder of The Telephone Museum, for the following blog post: Recently, we set the wayback machine to April 19TH, 1878 and went to Lowell, MA. We found Charles Jasper Glidden and his brother J. Clark Glidden on a roof top with what seemed to be hundreds…
Read More »Fruitcake web image courtesy of apple.com Like its subject this essay has been around, appearing first as a Sunrise radio essay, re-wrapped as a “Guest Column” piece in the Sun, and showing up on this blog last year. At Paul Marion’s request I re-gift it once more to all who…
Read More »Sharing the spotlight today at the Lowell Historical Society meeting in the community room at the Pollard Memorial Library. The topic was “Lowell After World War II,” and the program drew a full house of more than 70 attendees. We talked about our new books, ‘”Lowell: Images of Modern…
Read More »Several years ago I wrote a blog post about a fire at Providence College early in the morning of December 13, 1977. The original post now has more than 50 comments, many of them from people who were there that evening. On this anniversary of this event, please take a…
Read More »This Saturday, December 12, 2015, the Lowell Historical Society will hold a program on Lowell History Since World War II at 2 p.m. at the Pollard Memorial Library’s Community Room. Paul Marion and I will be the main speakers. We will both discuss the past seventy years of our city’s…
Read More »Recently I met Vincent Valentine, the founder of The Telephone Museum. Not surprisingly, we were soon talking about Lowell and its role in the development of the telephone. I invited him to share some telephone stories with our readers here on richardhowe.com: “The Numbers Guy” How We Got Telephone Numbers…
Read More »Yesterday I posted a review of Massacre on The Merrimack: Hannah Duston’s Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America by Methuen’s Jay Atkinson. Duston’s story is put in the context of the violence and uncertainty in this part of New England at the end of the seventeenth century. There are many…
Read More »The following is shared on behalf of the National Park Service which is preparing for the 100th anniversary of the birth of John F. Kennedy in 2017. From John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site, U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site, established as…
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