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“… Just as he describes it, the Concord narrows dramatically and shallows out over a ‘yellow pebbly bottom’ as it approaches the falls in Billerica, where the Thoreaus went off on the Middlesex Canal and where Kaz and I were to rendezvous with my wife, Yolanda Whitman, in her Odyssey.…
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Read More »Buddy Guy drove his musical Mack truck right through the center of a packed Boarding House Park this past Saturday night and left everybody staggering from the blues wallop that he put on us. We go to the pavilion on these nights like lowly moths drawn to lamps, hoping to…
Read More »Mayor Patrick Murphy shared the following statement: The other week my family took a trip out to Carlisle where Hale’s Brook begins in a quiet cranberry bog. We followed the brook from there through Great Brook State Park, and later Mill Pond, and continued on until we reached its start…
Read More »“Blue Abstract” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net Since our photographer-in-residence Tony Sampas gave us images from his recent “Blue Period,” here’s a painting with a color connection.
Read More »The following sales for real estate in Lowell occurred this week. The information in parenthesis shows the date of price and date of the previous sale of the property: July 29, 2013 – Monday 42 Seventh St for $185,000 (2011 Foreclosure Deed for $154,759) 40 Boylston St for $250,000 (2009…
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Read More »We’ve set the dates for the Fall 2013 tours of Lowell Cemetery. They are: Friday, September 27, 2013 at 1 pm Saturday, September 28, 2013 at 10 am Friday, October 4, 2013 at 1 pm Saturday, October 5, 2013 at 10 am The tours begin at the Knapp Avenue entrance,…
Read More »It’s hard to believe that I’ve been attending Lowell Folk Festivals for more than a quarter of a century. That makes me feel old. I vividly recall George Price, the jovial assistant superintendent of the Lowell National Park, leading the opening parade up Central Street to the South Common where,…
Read More »Reverend Seamus Finn, OMI We’ve profiled and highlighted the work of Lowell-connected Oblate – Seamus Finn, OMI in past blog posts like this one: https://www.richardhowe.com/2013/01/02/fr-seamus-finn-omi-new-years-resolutions-and-corporate-social-responsibility/. Today we note a Letter-to-the Editor at the Lowell Sun where Father Finn has taken issue with the Sun editorial criticism of Elizabeth Warren’s “obsession with Wall…
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