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The Eagle Tribune’s Haverhill coverage today includes a lively debate about the potential impact of author Andre Dubus III’s memoir “Townie” on the image of the city. Mayor James Fiorentini took exception to initial media coverage of Andre’s book with references to the rough side of life in the Haverhill of the…
Read More »Setting aside her poems about war, slavery, work, and spirituality for this morning, here’s an except from one of Lucy Larcom’s many poems about the environment. This poem is from “The Poetical Works of Lucy Larcom, Household Edition” (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., 1885). About her poems, her friend John…
Read More »To honor of Lucy Larcom’s birthday on this day – March 5, 1824 – this exerpt from her memoir – “A New England Girlhood’ – seems appropriate. Larcom was reflecting on her days in the sisterhood we know as the Lowell mill girls: In recalling those years of my girlhood at Lowell,…
Read More »From today’s Boston Herald – the Inside Track – and the beat goes on… . . . The Pride of Lowell “Irish” Micky Ward and his bro, Dicky Eklund, fresh from their appearance at the Academy Awards, where their story, “The Fighter,” took home two Oscars, delivering their message of…
Read More »We’re on the March or in the March or however we want to say it. This month and next month are huge for cultural activities in the city. Here’s a sample and by no means everything this month: Today and tomorrow: XFest 2011 at 119 Gallery, 119 Chelmsford St (www.119gallery.org)…
Read More »The Lowell Sun reports today that work will commence on the city’s new Judicial Center this summer. Expected to cost $175 million dollars and take 30 months to construct at the end of Jackson Street, the new facility will house all court operations in Lowell including Superior, District, Juvenile, Housing…
Read More »Read Tim Egan in the NYTimes today if you want to see what’s rotting the civic culture of the United States. If a person as prominent as former Ark. Gov. Huckabee can say what he said about President Obama and not get ostracized overnight and shunted off the public stage,…
Read More »Corey Sciuto on Facebook posted about a bioregional quiz, which prompted me to share this information about the online bioregional journal “The Bridge Review: Merrimack Valley Culture” that was published between 1997 and 2005. Five issues of the eclectic anthology were published. “The Bridge Review” branched off, so to speak,…
Read More »Some views of St Joseph’s School at 176 Merrimack Street, from Tony Sampas
Read More »Dicky Ekland and Micky Ward Go to the Oscars In case you missed this Mark Shanahan & Meredith Goldstein item in today’s Globe – a shout-out, a website and a sequel. The brothers Ekland and Ward from The Fighter still a draw! Christian Bale makes a good product spokesman. After giving…
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