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Today’s SUN includes an eloquently written article by Rita Savard about Jack Kerouac’s roots in Centralville, specifically St. Louis de France parish. She accompanied a group of people on a Sunday morning walking tour that was guided by the orginator of the tours of Kerouac literary sites, Roger Brunelle. He led four tours at this year’s Kerouac…
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Read More »Another installment of our Lowell trivia questions. The answers will be posted tomorrow. 6) What Lowell boxer represented the United States at the 1924 Olympic Games? 7) Which country’s national anthem was written by a person who lived in Lowell? 8) How many Roman Catholic churches in Lowell were originally…
Read More »In today’s edition of the Boston Herald Jessica Heslam writes about a struggle for the top job at Suffolk University where the combatants – veterans of the political slog – both claim “nay – nay.” Both former Boston City Councilor John Nucci and former Member of Congress Marty Meehan deny…
Read More »AOL.COM News reports on the “first ocean life census,” which revealed “6,000 new species.” Who says there’s nothing new under the sun? Read the news here. This is also International Space Week. Here are some suggestions for celebrating from 944.com. To learn more about Space Week, visit the home on the web.…
Read More »We like the Lowell Folk Festival, which is a big event for our mid-sized city. San Francisco this past weekend hosted its annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, which drew about 600,000 people to Golden Gate Park. Some of the performers who were in S.F. have played stages in Lowell, including…
Read More »From truth-out.org, I picked up the following five-step plan by filmmaker Michael Moore, who still prefers Democrats over Republicans any day. Read it here.
Read More »Tony Sampas shares his “views” of the local newspaper
Read More »Here’s Paul Marion reading his poem, “Dylan Sings to Kerouac”, at Kerouac Park during this past weekend’s Jack Kerouac Literary Festival in Lowell, Massachusetts. (Video posted on YouTube by “spannedy”) [youtube]uuSfWNu9gMY[/youtube]
Read More »This video contains some spectacular pictures of Fort Hill in Lowell. This video was originally posted on YouTube by squawkt22. [youtube]rcHmy19wLvE[/youtube]
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