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The following entry is being cross posted from local playwright, Jack Neary’s own blog, Shards. I stepped on my Kindle. This is one of the main things you should not do with your Kindle. Step on it. When you step on it, it stops being a Kindle. The only thing…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Say the word “auditor,” and you probably think sweaty palms, sleepless nights and maybe a nervous tic. But the race for state auditor has nothing directly to do with your tax returns or individual finances. The words “state…
Read More »My family took a stay-cation day trip to Salem last Thursday, visiting the Peabody Essex Museum, our favorite place in a city that we go to once or twice a year. I’d never seen the Yin Yu Tang house, but my wife had been inside several times. This 200-year-old house from…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. ABC news calls the Pakistani flooding “the worst floods in memory.” Fourteen million homeless. Six million children affected. Sixteen percent of the country under water due to two weeks of monsoon rains, which have created literally hundreds of…
Read More »Its time for the public to wake up and start fighting for the concept of Net Neutrality. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal… That’s how the country’s most sacred document, the “Declaration of Independence” reads. Unfortunately, the time has come when we need a…
Read More »This video was originally post by 1teacherman. Here is the YouTube description: The Worthen House, Lowell, MA. One of four intact pulley driven fan systems and the only one still in its original building.
Read More »Ok, so you’re Sarah Palin and you hear that your daughter Bristol’s boyfriend/ex-boyfriend/ fiance/ex-fiance Levi Johnston is planning on running for your old job…Mayor of Wasilla, tell me, what the heck goes through your head (if anything). Me? If I was Palin, I’d be thinking…”this pain in the ass is…
Read More »The following entry is cross posted from Jack Neary’s own Blog, Shards. So much has been written over the past few days about my friend–our friend, everybody’s friend–former State Rep Ed LeLacheur and his boundless enthusiasm for life and service, that nothing I can contribute here can really add much…
Read More »Lowell native Dr. Brian C. Mitchell wrote of the Irish in Lowell 1821-1861 and the Lowell Acre’s “Paddy Camps”. The wire story the other day was just a teaser. A story in today’s Globe tells the fuller story of the teaming-up of students from UMass Lowell with researchers from Queen’s University in Belfast for…
Read More »Sixty two years ago today the iconic TV show Candid Camera first aired on ABC. Few people (or at least me anyway) remember that Candid Camera actually began as a radio show called Candid Microphone. In June of 1947 Candid Microphone hit the airwaves with a bang. Its quick success prompted…
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