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The following is the first of a series of excerpts from books about Lowell that I will share in this new year. These brief passages about people, places, and happenings remind us of our community’s rich history and may help us notice the soon-to-be historic elements of our experience right…
Read More »Many cultures and countries have customs and traditions practiced or at least remembered on New Years Eve and New Years Day. I remember attending a French-Canadian New Years Eve traditional event arranged by our friend Mehmed Ali. The Reveillion – highly focused on food – was celebrated in historic downtown Lowell in the community room of the Shine of…
Read More »“City Hall” by Richard Marion, 1983 drawing, (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »Here are my Top Ten events and developments in Lowell in 2012. Please add your own using the comment feature: 1. Elizabeth Warren defeated Scott Brown for the United States Senate, 54% to 46%. Warren won Lowell by nearly 6,000 votes. Many of those who voted for Warren have not…
Read More »It’s Top Ten time. I’ll post my list of top Lowell events of the past year tomorrow morning, but I’ve been rolling out similar posts for past years. My list for 2007 is HERE and for 2009 is HERE. For some reason, my Top Ten lists seem to be every…
Read More »Joe Donahue (Joseph Donahue of Duke University in North Carolina and the literary constellation Lowelliana) has a poem in the Dec. 24 issue of The Nation magazine, one of the few remaining nationally distributed publications that regularly make room for poets–and thus a fantastic location for widespread viewing of literary compositions.…
Read More »Back in 1986, the “Tax Simplification Act” drastically changed the way real estate transactions, among many other things, were taxed. That year’s December 31 was one of the busiest days in the history of the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds (so I am told since I was not yet there…
Read More »Lowell City Hall. Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Is New Year’s Eve the biggest Chinese-take-out night of the year in Lowell? What is your favorite Chinese take-out place? “Take-Out” by Richard Marion (c) 2012 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »I couldn’t find my Lowell list from 2008 so we’ll just skip from yesterday’s 2007 Top Ten to the following inventory from 2009: (Originally posted on December 29, 2009) It was a busy year in Lowell politics, so I won’t limit myself to just ten items. Here is my list…
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