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“On You Go: A Remembrance of Dermot Healy” by DANIEL WADE
The month of November, with its decreasing hours of daylight and lengthening nights, offers an opportunity to turn inwards. It is traditionally a month in Ireland when we remember those who have passed on, indeed the 1st and 2nd of November are known respectively as All Saints and All Souls…
Read More »Remarks at Lowell Plan Breakfast (Sep 26, 2013)
History as It Happens: Citizen Bloggers in Lowell, Mass. (2017) captures the best writing from the first ten years of this blog, an unsettled time for the economy, politics, technology, and culture. The book, featuring many writers, documents the local story and offers commentary on national and global matters that touched our…
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History as It Happens: Citizen Bloggers in Lowell, Mass. (2017) captures the best writing from the first ten years of this blog, an unsettled time for the economy, politics, technology, and culture. The book, featuring many writers, documents the local story and offers commentary on national and global matters that touched our…
Read More »Musing on Moxie’s Lowell Roots (Aug 5, 2007)
History as It Happens: Citizen Bloggers in Lowell, Mass. (2017) captures the best writing from the first ten years of this blog, an unsettled time for the economy, politics, technology, and culture. The book, featuring many writers, documents the local story and offers commentary on national and global matters that touched our…
Read More »Beware: January 20 can be a lifetime away by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Little by little, Donald Trump is running out of time and techniques to deny the reality of President-elect Joe Biden. Trump’s refusal to acknowledge he’s a loser may be embraced by 70 percent of Republicans, some of whom…
Read More »Obamamania in Nashua (Jan 6, 2008)
History as It Happens: Citizen Bloggers in Lowell, Mass. (2017) captures the best writing from the first ten years of this blog, an unsettled time for the economy, politics, technology, and culture. The book, featuring many writers, documents the local story and offers commentary on national and global matters that touched our…
Read More »Capturing Lowell in a Single Line: “Cummiskey Alley”
A review by Richard Howe of Cummiskey Alley: New and Selected Lowell Poems by Tom Sexton At the end of the bottom shelf of my big bookcase, after all the histories, memoirs, and biographies that are my usual literary diet, sit two books about poetry: Can Poetry Matter? by Dana…
Read More »Denis Barrett of Ireland Shares His Nation’s Joy About Joe Biden’s Victory
November 13, 2020
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Two days ago, Denis Barrett, coordinator of Cork Learning City, wrote to colleagues including John Wooding, former professor and provost at UMass Lowell who leads Lowell: City of Learning. The two partner organizations promote lifelong learning in their cities, and this year brought out the Cork-Lowell writing anthology ATLANTIC CURRENTS,…
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