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Duly celebrated – (PIP #51) By Louise Peloquin New Year’s festivities survive the passage of time. Perennial celebrations, like flowers, bear colorful promises. May L’Etoile’s wishes for a Bonne et heureuse année offer hope for the future. L’Etoile – December 30, 1924 New Year’s Day in our community The city’s Franco-American organizations have…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It was a scorcher of a day in the summer of 1975, more than a year before the presidential election to determine whether Jerry Ford could withstand public contempt for his decision to pardon Richard Nixon and win…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Majorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Polls show that two thirds of Americans are mentally exhausted and taking a break from a steady diet of news consumption. Count me among them, at least aspirationally. Since the election, mainstream newspapers, cable and network news have bled readers…
Read More »Lowell Year in Review 2024 As each years comes to a close, I have composed my list of the top Lowell political events of the year. Here is my 2024 edition: The local political year began with the new city council taking the oath of office with John Descoteaux being…
Read More »This essay by Henri Marchand was first heard as a radio essay on the “Sunrise” program of WUML, 92.5 FM, at UMass Lowell. Today we continue our tradition of reposting the essay each year at Christmas. The Christmas Fruitcake: An Ageless Tradition By Henri Marchand I think there…
Read More »This post was first heard as a radio essay on the Sunrise program of WUML, 92.5 FM, at UMass Lowell. Executive producer Chris Dunlap assembled writers in the area for the daily essay feature, a popular component of the morning public affairs show. I have shared this essay with rh.com readers for several…
Read More »Lowell’s Christmas 1924 – (PIP #50) By Louise Peloquin You who have been reading the peeks into the past (“PIP’s”) posted here since September 8, 2023 have become part of L’Etoile’s readership. On its December 24, 1924 front page, the Star of Prince Street (1), extends holiday wishes to you. ***** ***** PIP…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Congratulations to our do-little 118th Congress, which, after weeks of inactivity and chaos, has finally passed funding to keep the U.S. government open until March. It’s no surprise that only 21 percent of the American people approve of…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Former Massachusetts Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti is dead at 101. One of my first interviews with him, shown to the left, with my six-year-old son Daniel Arons looking on, was in 1973 at a local political…
Read More »Christmas With The Kanes By David Daniel The exchanging of cards at the holidays remains a quaint, if vanishing, tradition. For a time, it gave ground to the “holiday letter”—pages of cheery mimeographed minutiae. But even those have waned, the impetus to show lives in perfect balance largely siphoned off…
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