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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Absolutely on Music: Conversations is a gift to classical music lovers and a perfect book to read as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, having successfully resolved its contract negotiations, prepares to start its 146th season. The book comprises the recordings of…
Read More »There was no Lowell City Council meeting this week so in today’s newsletter I’ll write about some Lowell political history, specifically our representatives in Congress since 1960. 1960 – F. Bradford Morse – Republican Edith Nourse Rogers had represented Lowell’s Congressional District since 1925. When she died on September 10,…
Read More »Just Sayin’—Jonathan Lemire and The Atlantic Festival in NYC What is the acronym, iykyk? But if you have not heard, this is just to say Lowell’s Jonathan Lemire (living in New York now), top-tier journalist and book-writer, regular on MSNOW’s “Morning Joe” broadcast, and staff writer at The Atlantic, which,…
Read More »Nun Too Happy! By Leo Racicot The good Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur would be horrified to see or worse try to read my spidery, hieroglyphic scrawl; they labored tirelessly to drum into us students the Palmer Penmanship Method. I sometimes can’t read my own writing a minute after writing it.…
Read More »Living Madly: Lighter than Air By Emilie-Noelle Provost Joy can be hard to come by these days. In my case at least, the last seven years have often felt like one long street fight. In early 2019, my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer. The following year, because of the…
Read More »A weekly report on things I’ve read, heard and seen since last Wednesday. Article: “Dear Client, thieves may be eyeing your home. No worries.” By Ron Lieber for New York Times on August 31, 2026. This longtime Times business columnist returned from vacation to find a letter from the bank…
Read More »Two years ago, Louise Peloquin began sharing excerpts from L’Etoile, a French-language newspaper published in Lowell from 1886 to 1957. At my urging, she has agreed to compile some of her previous posts with added contextual information into a book manuscript to be called, L’Etoile: A Star on Prince Street.…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The late Barney Frank’s book, The Hard Path to Unity: Why We Must Reform the Left to Rescue Democracy, to be published September 15 by Yale University Press, is a valedictory the former Massachusetts Fourth District Congressman wrote during…
Read More »The Lowell City Council met on Tuesday, September 8, 2026. The council is still on its twice-monthly summer meeting schedule which typically yields a very long meeting, however, this one lasted just over two hours, which is concise by summer standards. Contributing to the brevity of the meeting was the…
Read More »A poem to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Edith Nourse Rogers on September 10, 1960. Rogers represented Lowell in Congress for 35 years. For Edith Nourse Rogers By Suzanne Beebe Memorial Day in 1950s Lowell — with Color guards, and marching bands, and U.S Military men and vehicles,…
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