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Robert Reich Mulls Longterm Economic Issues
At nytimes.com, economist Robert Reich looks to 2012 and beyond in a longer than usual essay.
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Kerouac’s Early Novel Published in U.K.
The Daily Mail in the UK and many other media outlets worldwide are reporting on the publication of what is considered Jack Kerouac’s first novel, “The Sea Is My Brother,” written when he was about 20 years old. The book is being published first in the UK by Penguin, and Harper reportedly…
Read More »Thanksgiving on the South Common
It was quiet on the Common at 7 a.m. when I made the circuit with our Boston Terrier, Ringo. How cold was it? Not very. Enough for a seasonal edge. The leaf-trees are empty. On the ground all the color has drained from the leaves, which from a distance resemble light…
Read More »Architectural Details
Architectural details at the Pollard Memorial Library. Photos by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Page One for Emerging Lowell ‘Creatives’ Anthology
Today’s Sun features a front page, above the fold, article by Jennifer Myers about the COOL-est creative anthology in the city, “Young Angel Midnight,” edited by Ryan Gallagher and Derek Fenner of Bootstrap Productions of Lowell. Writers, musicians, photographers, painters, and more contributed work for the 200-plus page book. The book…
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Photos by Tony Sampas
Read More »Khmer Rouge Trials Continue in Cambodia
Today’s NYTimes includes a report by Seth Mydans about the latest developments in the Khmer Rouge trials in Cambodia. This is part of our history in Lowell because many of our neighbors from that nation came to the U.S. because of the Khmer Rouge’s epic crime against humanity. These neighbors carry personal stories of the genocide…
Read More »“Lower Belvidere” by Tom Sexton
Tom Sexton is a Distinguished Alumni of Lowell High School and the former Poet Laureate of Alaska where he lives in the winter. He’s a regular reader of this site and has sometimes shared his poems and comments with us in the past. Today he shared the following essay about…
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Read More »The Lowell/Merrimack Valley Connection: Elizabeth Warren Covered By New York Magazine
November 18, 2011
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A regular reader gave us a heads-up on the Elizabeth Warren story in the current edition of New York Magazine. Insiders at her Lowell meeting a few weeks ago knew that she was being shadowed by the magazine’s writer Jason Zengerle. In “A Saint with Elbows” he poses the question -“In…
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