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History is usually defined as a chronological record of significant events (as affecting a nation or institution) often including an explanation of their causes. Sometimes the interpretation of history along with its presentation can cause some problems. There’s a local kerfuffle over “Walking Tours of Civil War Boston’’ – the…
Read More »The former manager and player passed away last week. Here are a couple of baseball card memories of Dick Williams. The first is a Topps baseball card from 1964, and the other is his manager card from the Impossible Dream year of 1967, also a Topps card.
Read More »See the latest in Merrimack Valley Magazine. Features include the Lowell Summer Music Series with Peter Aucella, the Lowell Film Festival, Micky Ward Charities, Shaw Farm in Dracut, and plenty more. This publication has become required reading “In the Merrimack Valley” (to take a phrase from my blogging colleague Marie).
Read More »In the journal The Beat Review Beat literature scholar Jimmy Fazzino of the Universtiy of California, Santa Cruz, reviews Bill Morgan’s latest book “Beat Atlas: A State by State Guide to the Beat Generation in America” (2011: City Lights Books, S.F.). The guidebook opens with Lowell and Jack Kerouac. Beginning…
Read More »Castles and classics: Styles of residential architecture abound in the city of Lowell from Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Dutch and Georgian Colonials to the classic Bungalow, the traditional Cape Codder, the functional Ranch and much more. Nowhere is the elegance of Lowell’s Victorian-style homes more apparent that on that hill…
Read More »I can’t write about this yet. I’m still processing the impact of experiencing The Fab Faux’s performance of Beatles music last night at Boarding House Park in the Lowell Summer Music Series. Late Friday, after the Flecktones concert I wrote that the Series is becoming a “Can you top this?” operation. For…
Read More »Is the murder and mayhem in Mexico bizarre and disconnected from us as we sit so far from our nation’s southern border or is it maybe the leading edge of some form of mass chaos that could crack the social earth right here? Another 17 people gunned down in a bar in Monterey, Mexico, adding to the…
Read More »Just back from Boarding House Park and what some audience members described as a “life-changing experience” after 2.5 hours of musical immersion in the art of Bela Fleck and the fabulous Flecktones. I don’t know the vocabulary of the banjo, but Mr Fleck coaxes out of it a sophisticated sound…
Read More »The Lowell Farmers Market opens for the season today July 8 from 2-6pm. Still in it’s easily accessible location in the JFK Plaza next to Lowell City Hall, the market has expanded opportunities for locavores offering a vast array of vegetables, breads, sustainably-farmed pork, chicken, beef, eggs, and dairy products…
Read More »From AOL/Huffington Post, here are comments by ultra-wealthy Warren Buffett on the political game being played by national Republicans in Congress concerning the national debt limit. The clip is from a CNBC interview. In May, Buffett stated at a Berkshire Hathaway shareholder’s meeting that if the Congress failed to raise the debt…
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