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In response to Marjorie’s grim assessment of the cost of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, I went to the rh.com archives for this post I wrote in 2010 titled “Who Gets Hurt?” There’s no way to add up all the pain out there—and it rolls on day to day in…
Read More »Mr. Nason Skating on the Merrimack . In March of the year we were in kindergarten, Mr. Nason told us how on one cold night he skated from Lowell to beyond Manchester where we knew the river vanished with a sigh and the moon’s breath was frozen to the ground,…
Read More »Fire and Ice BY ROBERT FROST Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice…
Read More »Every morning as I prepare my Facebook weather comments, I open my front door, look around and get a feel for the conditions in my immediate neighborhood. This morning I had a clear view of the white wood clapboarded Baptist Church on the corner at Andover Street at the top of…
Read More »The Lowell Heritage Partnership and the Lowell National Historical Park are seeking nominations from the community of individuals or organizations so that they may be acknowledged for their contributions in the areas of historic preservation and cultural heritage. The award recipients will be honored at the Annual Lowell Preservation and Cultural heritage Awards Reception…
Read More »“One fine morning, not long ago, I strolled down the Merrimac, on the Tewksbury shore. I know of no walk in the vicinity of Lowell so inviting as that along the margin of the river for nearly a mile from the village of Belvidere. The path winds, green and flower-skirted,…
Read More »The Winter 1996 issue of BOMB includes an interview of Patti Smith by musician Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. She performed at the Smith Baker Center in Lowell on October 6, 1995, for the annual Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! festival. The band stayed overnight at the Stonehedge Inn in Tyngsboro. Following…
Read More »Friends on Facebook reminded me that today is the anniversary of the death of baseball player Tony Conigliaro. Here’s a link to an essay I wrote about him many years ago and which was posted on this blog at least once in the past.
Read More »Spring Fever Last Sunday in February. Neighbors lean on warm cars. Snow pulls away from the grass. At the corner variety store kids huddle out front, hustle off, scattering baseball card wrappers colorful as April tulips. . —Paul Marion (c) 1984, 2014 .
Read More »Twenty years ago, Peter S. Alexis and Henry Kucharzyk organized a museum exhibition at the Patrick J. Mogan Cultural Center (40 French St., near Boarding House Park) about two of the more fascinating people who lived in Lowell. Read about them in the exhibit brochure here, which is available on…
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