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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When it comes to securing voting rights, rhetorical flourish will go only so far. At his eulogy for civil rights icon John Lewis last year, former President Obama waxed eloquent in support of comprehensive legislation. Last week in…
Read More »One of the oldest documents in the records of the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds was created in 1629. It’s a deed from a number of the various native American tribes in the Merrimack Valley and southern New Hampshire to John Wheelwright and several other residents “of the Massachusetts Bay…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. The sign hung over Fenway Park, just under the beloved Red Sox icon. It read, “Save Doug Kahn’s Life! BWH.donorscreen.org Kidney donor urgently needed!” A desperate move on behalf of a desperate young man. Things have never…
Read More »Councilors elected in 1943 – these were the incumbents seeking reelection in 1945: Joseph J. Sweeney Woodbury F. Howard Leo A. Roy J. Russell Scott Walter E. Clement William C. Geary Maurice D. Condrey Bart J. Callery Jr. Harold W. Hartwell 1945 Campaign and Election November 7, 1945 – Wednesday…
Read More »Over the next few weeks I will write about the Lowell City Council elections that took place between 1943 and 1965. The former date is the first election held after the city adopted the Plan E form of government; the second date is the first year covered by my Lowell…
Read More »Fred Woods of Cambridge, Mass., and places farther west in America is a past contributor to this blog. He has a poem in issue #1 of The Lowell Review. A media producer, lawyer, sailor, sports fan, and veteran of the Paul Tsongas political campaigns, Fred is married to Nancy Bellows…
Read More »From Paul Marion, a co-editor of The Lowell Review: Readers will notice something new in the left column on the main page of RichardHowe.com, an image of the cover of issue #1 of The Lowell Review, a literary magazine that we have spun off this blog. In the tradition of American literary magazines, The…
Read More »Fresh off the writing table at the Tom Sexton base camp in Alaska, here’s a poem that Tom says is exact in each detail. He and his wife, Sharyn, recently did a road trip from Anchorage to Fairbanks to Delta Junction and around to Lake Louise. Like Robert Frost picking…
Read More »Class Lecture By Mark Cote I began my lecture the other night by telling my students that neither the future nor god exist. Seemed the right thing to do. The time had come to stop pretending everything was ok. The Capitol had been breached for the love of God! All…
Read More »Boarding School Blues By Louise Peloquin Ch. 15: In the Night Blanche’s vision sharpened that October Saturday. People she thought she knew by heart were no longer what-you-see-is-what-you-get. Her mother, for instance, was always in control and made lemonade out of life’s lemons. But seeing her mute and compliant with…
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