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Folklife at the National Park: A Look Back
Following is another excerpt from “Mill Power: Reclaiming Lowell’s Place and Story,” the book I’ve written about the national park in Lowell. This piece is a sidebar, a flashback to the Lowell Folklife Project of 1987-88, when a team of scholars recorded in pictures, on tape, and in field notes…
Read More »‘Hymn’ by Lucy Larcom
Lucy Larcom (1824 – 1893) was a poet, writer, editor, teacher, abolitionist, and more who worked in the Lowell textile mills from age 11 to 21. She published hundreds of poems, a notable memoir (“A New England Girlhood”), and other works. In Lowell, she is remembered at Lucy Larcom Park,…
Read More »from ‘The Park Bill Becomes Law’: Ray LaPorte’s Story
Here’s another excerpt from the book about the origin and impact of Lowell’s national park that I’ve been working on for the past two years. With luck, the book will be available by the end of 2014. The search is on for a publisher that can distribute the book widely,…
Read More »Menino v. Connolly an intergenerational competition by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. One need look no further than Joe Fitzgerald’s column in today’s Boston Herald to know why City Councillor John Connolly’s mayoral bid is such an uphill race. Fitzgerald looks at Menino through his wife Angela’s eyes. Angela is…
Read More »Inspired by Lowell: Michael Leary
Some of our readers know that I’ve been working on a book about the origin and impact of Lowell National Historical Park for the past two years. Following is an excerpt from the section about preserving the historic structures and places in the city. Michael Leary is an urban studies…
Read More »Elizabeth Warren still a breath of fresh air by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Senator Elizabeth Warren, in office for less than two months, remains a breath of fresh air. She comes to the body with experience, intellect and relative sophistication for a newcomer to the club. She has been there before but is now calibrating…
Read More »Writers & Publishers Downtown Today
Reminder: Today you can go to the 2nd Annual Lowell Writers and Publishers Winter Roundup at the Old Court Irish pub at Central & Middle streets in downtown Lowell, where at least 12 publishers and many more writers will be hanging out from 12.30 to 4 pm. This is Winterfest…
Read More »What a Pope Sean would say about the church by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It’s hard not to think positively of Cardinal Sean O’Malley’s being mentioned as a contender to succeed Pope Benedict. Media interest (see Vatican reporter John Allen’s recap in the National Catholic Reporter about how Italian media have fueled…
Read More »A liberal manifesto with a centrist tinge by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. President Barack Obama’s state-of-the-union speech was as much a liberal manifesto as I’ve heard in decades. Not surprising then that so many of the talking heads take the speech as evidence that Obama is trying to move the…
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