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Here’s a poem from the vault to go with the Civil War program that my co-blogger Dick will be involved with in April. I wrote this poem after visiting my brother David and his family in south central Virginia in the 1970s. He had recently taken a position as a…
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On Thursday April 9, 2015 at 7 pm, the Pollard Memorial Library will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the surrender of the Confederate Army of Robert E. Lee to Union forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865. Although other Confederate armies fought on for another…
Read More »Entertainment titan David Geffen will give $100 million to renovate one performance hall at Lincoln Center in New York City. The total cost of the project is estimated at $500M. Read the NYTimes story here. While certain individuals in the city and the Greater Lowell community as a whole have…
Read More »During the month of March the life, work and the memory of iconic Lowell writer Jack Kerouac is celebrated. Readings, musical tributes, discussions and walking the loop help commemorate the March 12 (1922) birthday of Jean-Louis “Jack” Kerouac. From the archive ~ Kerouac logs 2500 words toward finish of his first…
Read More »With the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon in late April 1975 getting near, the media reports and conversation in our own city are turning more often to that awful time in Southeast Asia. The suffering all around was immense. I was in my junior year at the then-University…
Read More »With the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War rapidly approaching, frequent contributor Jim Peters has been digging into the newspaper archives at the Pollard Library and will be writing about what was going on in this city has the war wound down to its end in…
Read More »Last night I was among the 2015 Anam Cara honorees – this award recognizes local “soul friends” who have made significant contributions to the preservation of Irish Culture and Heritage in the Greater-Lowell. After listening to the Acre Forum panelists – I felt so much a part of their experience…
Read More »Happy B-day to the old man writer of Centralville who was old at six years and never got younger because he could see over the edge of the horizon and got a glimpse of the void, making it more or less indefensible to get a job in a factory when…
Read More »Frequent contributor Jim Peters recently underwent a serious medical procedure but we know that he’s bounced back quickly since he’s now submitted a blog post about the experience: I have come to some very specific ideas about being operated on by very good doctors. I recently had surgery with Dr.…
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We have set the dates for this spring’s Lowell Cemetery tours. Here are the dates and times: Friday, May 15, 2015 at 1 pm Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 10 am Friday, May 22, 2015 at 1 pm Saturday, May 23, 2015 at 10 am All of these tours will…
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