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We all know how the Super Bowl turned out, and what a wild game the Patriots and Seahawks played. Waiting for the kickoff (six hours of pre-game chatter on TV), I could not help thinking about the history of the Patriots and what a journey the team has been…
Read More »Frequent contributor Jim Peters shares his thoughts on the Super Bowl: I am cheating. I am supposed to be working on a blog for April’s commemoration of Lowell’s sacrifices in the Civil War. Of course, as I have often written, we should name another building or bridge for Samuel Pollard…
Read More »Earlier today I received an email asking for help in identifying this political button. The query explained that the button is 2-1/4” across and that it was made by Universal Badge, probably in the late 1960s, early 1970s. Since the only “Kennedy” of that generation who served as a member…
Read More »In April 1998, UMass Lowell hosted what I believe was the first public forum to discuss what the web could or would do in the city. The event was billed as a town meeting and featured guest speakers, a panel discussion, a demonstration of a new online cultural magazine called…
Read More »I lived in Pawtucketville for several years, from the late 1970s to early ’80s. I often write in response to a place or to make sense of a place, and that neighborhood was no different. I lived on the top floor of an old triple-decker, a sea-green block on a…
Read More »In spite of the blizzard news, I must note that on this day – Janury 27, 2000 – the New England Patriot’s hired Bill Belichick as their 14th coach. And the rest – as they say – is history with perhaps more history to be made in 2015. From the…
Read More »Here’s an account of the Blizzard of 1978 that I wrote on its 15th anniversary in 1993. In February 1978, I was a sophomore at Providence College which is where I experienced that historic event. In the days before cameras were ubiquitous, all most of us have are our memories. …
Read More »Kate Hanson Foster graduated from UMass Lowell and gained her MFA in Poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in Groton, Mass. Her poems have appeared in California Quarterly, Comstock Review, and other literary magazines. Her first book “Mid Drift,” published by Loom Press in 2011, was selected that…
Read More »Whether watching men releasing caged birds at dawn in New York City or a ladder of cranes rising from a field in Manitoba, Tom Sexton is a keen observer of the interconnectedness of the natural and human worlds. The former Alaska poet laureate takes to the road in…
Read More »Our far-flung contributor Tom Sexton is wintering Down East, tending to his poems and books. He sent this composition about the young women workers back in the day. Tom’s latest book is “A Ladder of Cranes” (University of Alaska Press, distributed by University of Chicago Press). Congratulations to Tom, one…
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