Paul in Paris By Louise Peloquin Beatles fans, this is for you and is dedicated to the late Malcolm Sharps of Liverpool. The 2023 edition of The Lowell Review devoted an entire section to the Beatles. Charlie Gargiulo’s “Legends of Little Canada” also evokes their magic. (1) The memories shared…
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In last Sunday’s newsletter, I mentioned a Lowell Sun report that the city of Lowell had imposed a $300 per day fine on the Eliot Church for failing to clear trash from its property. As I predicted, the matter came up at Tuesday’s Lowell City Council meeting. Councilors self-righteously criticized…
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Notre Dame Inauguration New Flash By Louise Peloquin Barely 24 hours before the ceremony, The Archdiocese of Paris and the Élysée Palace (France’s “White House”) announced that the weather has flipped the December 7th Notre Dame inauguration ceremony set to welcome over 50 heads of state. Several of the main…
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Notre Dame, the Limestone Phoenix By Louise Peloquin Victor Hugo’s bestselling gothic novel Notre-Dame de Paris, published in 1831, roused public interest in the deteriorating cathedral and led to its restoration between 1844 and 1864 spearheaded by architect Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc. Just as, on November 8th, the cathedral’s 8 restored bells tore…
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Crime or Insanity? – (PIP #49) By Louise Peloquin On April 15th 2019, the New York Times featured the following headline: “Fire Mauls Beloved Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.” 95 years earlier, Little Canada’s beloved cathedral would have suffered the same fate were it not for a young woman’s acuity and responsiveness. Here is L’Etoile’s front-page coverage…
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Tuesday’s Lowell City Council was brief with the public portion lasting slightly less than an hour. (The council then went into executive session but adjourned from there, so councilors had to stay longer.) Before getting to the meeting, I want to mention the sad news that Mill No. 5, the…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. My stuffing is made. If the weather permits, we’ll be together with family for the Thanksgiving holiday. Friends and acquaintances keep reaching out, asking “what are we going to do?” They’re not referring to how best to…
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Chath pierSath, a writer and artist who has been a contributor to this blog, is featured through December 21 in a current exhibition of the art gallery Niru Ratnam in London. See the project description below. Here’s a link to the website. From the website of Niru Ratnam Gallery in…
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Thinking About Thanksgiving High School Football By Mike McCormick Mike McCormick of Alaska by way of Haverhill and Haverhill High School, has some observations on this year’s Haverhill High hazing incident and the subsequent cancellation of the school’s Thanksgiving Day football game against Lowell High. [This post originally appeared on this…
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Thanksgiving Merriment in Lowell – (PIP #48) By Louise Peloquin After turkey and fixings, Lowell’s French-Canadians pursued Thanksgiving festivities by singing and dancing in their social clubs. Among the traditional dances was a series of complex, rapid and rhythmical steps come from Ireland. “La gigue” became emblematic of Québec…
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