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Living Madly: The Summer of ‘92 By Emilie-Noelle Provost The excessive heat this season reminds of the summer after my junior year of college. I don’t know if it was as hot back then, in 1992, but it certainly felt like it. The house in which I grew up was…

Paris 2024 – When Women became Olympians By Louise Peloquin The 2024 Olympic Organizing Committee has proudly declared that the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games are welcoming the same number of men and women athletes. Most Olympic fans have heard of French educator Pierre de Coubertin’s central role in reviving…

With the Lowell City Council holding regular meetings on just the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month during the summer, we have a second consecutive week with no meeting to report on, so today we’ll pay another visit to Lowell’s political history. In the May 12, 2024, edition, I…

Paris 2024 – Breaking ahead! By Louise Peloquin Featuring urban-pop pirouettes, aerial arabesques, moondance balancés and athletic ronds de jambe, all punctuated by acrobatic grands jetés, street-corner ballet is making its debut in the Paris Games. Breakdancing, also known as B-boying, B-girling or breaking, was created in the ’70’s in the Bronx by young…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl is a confection, set in the 1980’s in Paris.  Stella, a 20-something copy editor in New York, leads a highly routinized life, the regularity of which is comforting to her.  She is estranged…

August 4, 2024 In the closing days of its just finished 2023-24 session, the Massachusetts State Legislature passed House Bill 4700, An Act authorizing the commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey certain parcels of land to the city of Lowell. The parcels to be conveyed are the former…

Paris 2024 – How they trained; where they’ll rest By Louise Peloquin How do athletes rev up their bodies to reach Olympic form? Let’s take a peek across the pond to the Emerald Isle. To prepare for specific conditions, some Irish athletes turned to what is now called “sport tech”…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. American Mother by Collum McCann is an as-told-to account by Diane Foley of the 2014 death of her son, freelance American journalist James W. Foley. McCann, the author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin, is a master storyteller, tells the…

The big news from Tuesday’s Lowell City Council meeting was the selection of Corey Belanger to serve the unexpired term of District 3 (Belvidere) Councilor John Leahy who resigned after taking a job with the Lowell School Department last week. This outcome surprised me, not because Belanger was selected but…

The following is a republication of a post by Paul Marion that first appeared here on July 28, 2013. It is being reposted in advance of this year’s Lowell Folk Festival which begins Friday, July 26, 2024, and runs through Sunday, July 28, 2024. Lowell Folk Festival Rates Five Starts…