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Paul Hudon of Lowell is the author of Lower Merrimack, an illustrated history of our region, and All in Good Time, a collection of poems. A past contributor to this blog, he returns with a meditation on time, place, and memory. Today, he remembers growing up in East Pawtucketville and…
Read More »This Saturday, August 5, 2023, at 10am, I’ll be leading a Lowell Walk of the North Common andd the Acre. The walk begins at the Murkland School and will last approximately 90 minutes. It’s free and no advanced registration is required. Just show up that morning prepared to hear some…
Read More »The following was distributed earlier today as my weekly Substack newsletter on Lowell politics. If you’d like to receive this weekly update by email in the future, sign up here. **** Tuesday’s Lowell City Council meeting was dominated by the debate over Accessory Dwelling Units. That was the only substantive…
Read More »The following was originally posted on today’s Substack newsletter. In the future, I will continue transmitting my weekly Lowell Politics newsletter via Substack at 4am on Sundays, but will publish the same content here on richardhowe.com a few hours later. **** I was away last week and was unable to…
Read More »The following originally appeared in part in the 2022 book, Lowell Irish 200. It was also distributed last Sunday as my Substack newsletter on Lowell politics. In the state election held on November 4, 1942, Lowell residents voted to change the city’s charter. By a vote of 16,477 in favor to…
Read More »Besides our own Lowell, Massachusetts, here’s a list of other places in the US that share the name: Lowell, Arkansas – Benton County. Population 9839 in 2020. Incorporated in 1881. Lowell, California – An unincorporated community in Napa County. In 1992, Lowell annexed into American Canyon. Lowell, Florida – An…
Read More »A Lowell Evolution By Steve O’Connor “I can’t wait to get the f*** out of Lowell.” How many times did I hear those words spoken in the smoke-filled bars of my youth? How many times did I say them myself? Even then I saw the setting sun that spread roses…
Read More »SCHEDULE NOTE. I’ll be reading poems in the famous Moses Greeley Parker Lectures series on Saturday, April 29, AT 12 NOON (NOT 2 PM), at the Pollard Memorial Library, 401 Merrimack St, next to Lowell City Hall. The menu will include oldies and new work from books like “Union River”…
Read More »Laid Off By Paul Marion The following story by Paul Marion originally appeared on paulmarion.com with the title, “Laid Off,” a chapter from “Do You Think You’ll Ever Go Back?” (a memory book in progress). ONE OF MY PRE-SCHOOL MEMORIES is a composite of scenes with my father during the…
Read More »Who dropped a whole truckload of fizzies into the varsity swim meet? Who delivered the medical school cadavers to the alumni dinner? Every Halloween, the trees are filled with underwear. Every spring, the toilets explode. Dean Wormer Animal House Back in 1978 when I first saw the movie Animal House,…
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