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Picking up on Tony Sampas’s documentary photographs of Cote’s Market on Salem Street, here’s an excerpt from a poem by Marie Louise St. Onge that was published in the book “French Class: French Canadian-American Writings on Identity, Culture, and Place” (Loom Press, 1999).—PM . from One Vegetable and Silence for…
Read More »The weather this week has made it tough for all of us to get around. The MBTA Lowell line has not escaped. In anticipation of traveling to Boston by train earlier this week, I signed up for email alerts of “notifications” that are generated whenever a problem arises. It’s been…
Read More »One of our regular contributors, Eileen Loucraft, is married to the nephew of Chick Loucraft who passed away this week. Thanks to Eileen for sharing the following memories of Mr. Loucraft: Charles “Chick” Loucraft 1934-2011 How does one talk about someone that is so loved? I don’t think anyone has…
Read More »This post is a collaborative effort. It was inspired by Marie’s recent post on the origins of the Lowell Memorial Auditorium and the recent attention given to boxing in Lowell by the success of “The Fighter.” It features a photo by Tony Sampas, a grainy archival news clip, and a poem by Paul…
Read More »WCVB (Channel 5) reporter Kelley Tuthill was in Lowell yesterday to visit sites that appeared in the movie “The Fighter.” She was guided by Lowell Police Sgt (and real life star of the movie) Mickey O’Keefe, but in the segment that aired last night at 11 pm and this evening…
Read More »The other day I posted a story about the super-sized retailer Walmart and plans for a super-sized Walmart box-store for the Civil War Wilderness Battlefield area in Virginia. That proposal had preservationists and developers at loggerheads. Read my January 23, 2011 post here. The Civil War Trust website has an article today announcing – much…
Read More »Lowell Memorial Auditorium, East Merrimack Street Lowell Massachusetts (vintage postcard) Fellow blogger – Eileen Loucraft of the “Lowell Doughboys” blog – which focuses on World War I and the Greater Lowell Area – has an interesting post on the Lowell Memorial Auditorium. Shortly after the end of World War I…
Read More »Tony Sampas reminds us of a classic Lowell place to get comfort food in the dead of winter
Read More »There was a letter to the editor from City Councilor Patrick Murphy published in yesterday’s Lowell Sun in which the councilor responded to an article and an editorial about his relationship with Councilor Bud Caulfield. The full text of the letter, which is also on Murphy’s own website, is as…
Read More »Boston Globe writers Ty Burr and Wesley Morris remind us this morning in their report on the Academy Award nominations, that the results have a decidedly ‘Boston and environs” voice. Check out the full article “Oscar acquires a Boston accent” here. Stay tuned for Oscar Night on Sunday February 27, 2011.
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