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On Friday, March 21, 2025, I traveled to UMass Lowell’s South Campus to attend the Khmer Literary Arts Day. The event featured talks and readings by four Khmer authors and then workshops in which participants spent two hours in breakout groups for fiction, poetry, children’s literature, and memoir, working on…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Becoming Madame Secretary by Stephanie Dray is a piece of historical fiction about Frances Perkins, named by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to be the Secretary of Labor, the first woman elevated to a cabinet position and the longest service Labor…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I’ve never been a fan of Chuck Schumer. I find him frequently ineffectual and sometimes fatuous. But in the current intraparty squabble among Democrats about advancing this week’s Continuing Resolution, I regret to say he and nine other…
Read More »The City’s Director of Elections and Census, Will Rosenberry, appeared before the City Council at Tuesday’s meeting to present a comprehensive memo in response to a handful of past city council motions related to the coming city election. That election will be held on Tuesday, November 4, 2025. State law…
Read More »Living Madly: Nothing Gold Can Stay By Emilie-Noelle Provost The elementary school I went to was built in 1909. The brick building was a replacement for an older wooden school that had been built sometime in the mid-19th century. My grandfather and his three brothers had also gone to the…
Read More »It’s always happening in 1924/25 Lowell – (PIP #62) By Louise Peloquin ***** PIP #61 (1) presented exhibits and new construction in Lowell a century ago. Here are more indications of the city’s vitality. L’Etoile – February 14, 1925 RADIO EXHIBIT OPENING Liberty Hall will hold Lowell’s first radio exhibit to…
Read More »At Tuesday’s meeting, the Lowell City Council discussed newly enacted state legislation called “Ollie’s Law” which is intended to improve the safety and regulation of pet boarding facilities, particularly dog kennels and daycares. The law was inspired by the 2020 death of a puppy named Ollie who died from injuries…
Read More »This article was originally posted on February 22, 2020, as “George Washington Painting Restoration.” This morning the Trustees of the Pollard Memorial Library hosted a celebration of the restoration of the library’s “Washington at Dorchester Heights” painting. Done by local artist Samuel Howes, the painting is modeled on Gilbert…
Read More »Henry Knox and Evacuation Day By Rich Grady My wife taught elementary school for many years in Boxborough, Massachusetts. She thoroughly enjoyed teaching 4th graders about the regions of the United States and was frequently gathering information to share with her students. When she covered the Northeast, she would tell…
Read More »The other day my friend John Suiter in Chicago sent me a short sketch of a street encounter that in its simplicity spoke volumes about respect for the rule of law among regular citizens in the USA. A former Boston resident, John is the author of Poets on the Peaks,…
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