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Five years ago Fred Faust contributed a series of blog posts about people in Greater Lowell who have taken initiative and achieved special things. In the following post which first appeared here on October 5, 2015, Fred wrote about Francey Slater and Lydia Sisson, the founders of Mill City Grows.…
Read More »Diary in the Time of Coronavirus (7) by Paul Hudon 24 May, 2020 ‘The fitful apprehension of history’ is a phrase I picked up four years ago come September. Apparently it was coined by Fredric Jameson, “an American Marxist philosopher.” This poses a problem because the phrase could be very…
Read More »Michael Casey’s latest book is There It Is: New & Selected Poems, which is available at loompress.com or amazon.com. He lives in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts. Remembrance . a pretty girl on my street wanted to be a writer and was taking home economic courses because women are not…
Read More »Diary in the Time of Coronavirus (5) by Paul Hudon *10th May River hawk glides into view, low-flying, heading west. Spirit lifting visual context. Escape. *11th May When Death is roaming the streets of your city, can God thinking be far behind? God, the paramour, the paradox, the paradigm of…
Read More »Joseph Pauletto grew up in the northern suburbs of Chicago before studying journalism at Boston University. His writing includes music criticism, as well as literary research and journalism. In high school, he was the station manager of WGBK radio, ran varsity track and cross country, and played jazz guitar. A…
Read More »Historian Paul Hudon sent us the latest from his Diary in the Time of Coronavirus. This week he invites readers into his room overlooking Pawtucket Falls on the Merrimack River. Diary in the Time of Coronavirus By Paul Hudon *26 April, 2020 Lord Manor, where I write this, sits on…
Read More »This is the second week of “virus” diary entries by Paul Hudon of Lowell, scholar and teacher and keen observer of the locale and wider world. He is the author of The Valley & Its People: An Illustrated History of the Lower Merrimack and All in Good Time, a book…
Read More »Lowell artist and teacher Richard Marion keeps a day-book or journal with observations about life in the city. Following is a recent excerpt describing a walk near the Concord and Merrimack rivers. from “A Corona Day-Book” by Richard Marion April 16, 2020 . . . At the First Street memorial…
Read More »Welcome today’s Lowell Walk. In this episode we visit the Lowell Memorial Auditorium and learn about the many monuments and historic artifacts on the grounds and within the building: If the above video window doesn’t work for you, follow this link to our YouTube page and watch the video from…
Read More »The Barbarians Have Arrived After Cavafy by Tom Sexton After a few centuries of patiently waiting outside the city, the barbarians have finally arrived and taken over the Capitol. When did they realize our Republic was rotting from the inside like an overripe pear? Who thought they’d…
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