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Yesterday at the Memorial Day Service of the Greater Lowell Veterans Council on the steps of the Lowell Memorial Auditorium, I was invited to speak about Lowell and the Civil War. Rather than speak from a prepared text, I used a rough outline so I could gauge the length of…
Read More »Holy Poets, Batman! Lowell’s own Tom Sexton is in the New York Times today. The front page of the Arts section/C1 includes an image of the cover of his newest book, “I Think Again of Those Ancient Chinese Poets” (Univ. of Alaska Press), and his paragraph of attention is on…
Read More »Created by Simon Towle, Photographer, 92 Merrimack Street. From the New York Public Library’s Digital Library of stereoscopic views.
Read More »Here’s the text of the famous 1884 Memorial Day speech by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., the Boston-born Civil War veteran who served on the US Supreme Court. His parents were the doctor-poet Oliver Wendell Holmes and abolitionist Amelia Lee Jackson. He enlisted in the army in his senior year at Harvard…
Read More »Author and Methuen-man Jay Atkinson has an essay about fathers, dads, in today’s Boston Globe Magazine. Read the essay here, and get the Globe if you want more.
Read More »Today’s NYTimes includes a capsule review of Neil Young’s new recording, “A Treasure,” which features a song inspired by the writing of poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier, most often associated with Haverhill and Amesbury, but also a former Lowell resident when he was the editor of a newspaper in the Spindle City:…
Read More »This “Matthew Brady Studio” portrait was probably made in the spring of 1864, around the time U.S. Grant put General Benjamin F. Butler in command of the Army of the James River. The Sesquicentennial commemoration of the American Civil War began in earnest last month. Locally, the story has been…
Read More »A video slideshow from today’s UMass Lowell graduation at the Tsongas Center. All reports indicate it was a well-run, dignified ceremony. Congratulations to all graduates: [youtube]DCZ9YLAY8Q0[/youtube]
Read More »Horton from Krejci: Goal. (Web photo by Brian Snyder courtesy of Reuters) Boston is back in the Stanley Cup finals for the first time since 1990 for a chance to win it all for the first time since 1972, the Bobby Orr era. I was a senior in high school…
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