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Looking Back to 1968

July 25, 2025 by PaulM Posted in The Beatles, Dracut, Paul Marion, Vietnam War, Space exploration, 1968, Brian J. Martin, Lowell High School, Lowell 18 Comments

Looking Back to 1968 by Paul Marion In late November 1968, my friend Susan April walked three miles in the rain from her home in Dracut, Mass., to buy the new Beatles double album at a Lowell record shop and hitchhiked home when the paper bag from the store began…

Simon Warner: From Beats to Beatles, an Origin Story on Kerouac’s Birthday

March 11, 2023 by PaulM Posted in Culture, Kerouac, The Beatles Leave a Comment

Jack Kerouac was born in the Centralville neighborhood in Lowell on March 12, 1922. He pictures his birth in his novel Doctor Sax, one of his “Lowell books.” He would be 101 years old today. His hometown pulled out all the stops last year for a Centennial celebration with a…

‘Love Me Do’: The Beatles in Northampton, 1963

February 10, 2022 by PaulM Posted in Culture, The Beatles 2 Comments

‘Love Me Do’ by John Wooding Web photo courtesy of Northantslive.news I had just made my first decade on the planet. A ten-year-old kid in a sad Midlands town. Northampton, like much of England in those days, was all monochrome, fading pubs, and forlorn shoe factories. Pretty soon…

The Beatles Land in Little Canada

February 6, 2022 by PaulM Posted in Culture, History, Lowell, The Beatles 3 Comments

The Beatles Land in Little Canada by Charlie Gargiulo An excerpt from Legends of Little Canada: Aunt Rose, Harvey’s Bookland, and My Captain Jack (forthcoming from Loom Press, 2022) Not long after New Year’s Day, we started to hear about a musical group from England called The Beatles. It was…