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Haiku by Ray LaPorte (April 4)
. Budget crisis looms Nuke radiation drifts here As Red Sox hit swoon . —Ray LaPorte (c) 2011
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In the Merrimack Valley: Steward and Saints Medical Center Letter of Intent to Buy
The Globe is reporting on BusinessUpdates that Steward Health Care Systems announced this morning that they have a letter of intent to purchase yet another hospital in the Merrimack Valley. Saints Medical Center in Lowell seems to find Steward “a good fit” for the hospital’s “mission, vision and values” according…
Read More »Sunset in the Acre
We’re all gazing skyward these days – – – here Tony Sampas captures a sunset in the Acre
Read More »Red sky at morning
Red sky at morning, sailor take warning . . . I noticed a red glow around the east-facing window shade of my kitchen earlier this morning, peeked out, and was amazed to see the colorful sky shown above looking back at me. Unfortunately, a morning palette of this variety, at…
Read More »Middlesex Community College Presents, BeatleJuice
Over 500 people rocked the Lowell Memorial Auditorium as BeatleJuice wow the crowd. As part of Middlesex Community College’s 40th anniversary celebration the highly regarded Beatles cover band played for over three hours. A fun time was had by all.
Read More »Tom Sexton in Lowell
I attended today’s Parker Lecture at the Lowell National Park Visitor Center and very much enjoyed listening along with about 50 others to Tom Sexton read many of his Lowell poems. The topics, characters, and language involved transported me back to younger days making the room sound much like a…
Read More »Kerouac’s “On the Road” Makes the List
On HuffingtonPost – Zoe Triska tell us the results of HuffPo’s query of readers about books they are currently reading published over fifteen years ago. Not surprisingly given yet another movie version – Jane Eyre was a popular choice. Of the nineteen books and their covers on the wesite, Jack…
Read More »Ben Butler and the end of slavery
Of all the famous and infamous experiences of Lowell’s Benjamin Butler during his service as a Union General during the American Civil War, perhaps the most important was a decision he made in May of 1861, just a month into the war and just a day after he took command…
Read More »“Native Americans” by Jim Peters (continued)
Jim Peters is a regular contributor to this site who has written several times about Native Americans and Lowell. Here’s today’s installment: Lowell has a strong history of colonization by many groups over the years. We take it for granted that Lowell will absorb a new culture every forty years…
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Reflections in the Merrimack Canal by Tony Sampas
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