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Read More »Boston Children’s Chorus celebrates us all by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. We’re all pretty Zoomed out these days, but consider saving Sunday, January 17 at 4 p.m. for the Boston Children’s Chorus’ 18th annual tribute to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. This year’s concert is “On the Water”…
Read More »Boarding School Blues, chapter 3
Boarding School Blues By Louise Peloquin Chapter 3: Readying Summer was coming to an end and back-to-school preparation topped Maman’s agenda. Blanche helped her mother take the inventory of the leftover school supplies. How many number two pencils, ball point pens, erasers, copybooks, loose-leaf sheets and folders could they salvage…
Read More »President Franklin Pierce: The Lowell Connection
President Franklin Pierce: The Lowell Connection Thanks to Juliet Mofford for her excellent story (posted yesterday) about President Franklin Pierce and the tragic death of his son, Benny. While many probably knew that Pierce was from New Hampshire (the only president from our neighboring state), few may realize that Pierce’s…
Read More »The Train Wreck That Derailed a President
The Train Wreck That Derailed a President by Julie Mofford “The burden of guilt I carry for a public career that destroyed my family will haunt me as long as I live.” – Franklin Pierce – Our 14th President Franklin Pierce, (1853 to 1857), had close ties to the…
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Janet Egan: A Poem for the Moby Dick Marathon in New Bedford, Mass.
Nancy and I have been attending the Moby Dick Marathon at the New Bedford Whaling Museum since 1997, the beginning of a New Bedford tradition. We’ve only missed two over the 25 years since then. I wrote this a few years ago right after the reading of the final chase…
Read More »“Where Now Begins”
January 8, 2021
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Chris O'Connor
Posted in Literature, Trasna, Ireland, Current Events, Poetry, Election 2020, 2020 Election
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“Where Now Begins” This week, on January 6th, the United States Capitol was attacked. It houses the meeting chambers of the United States Senate and the Congress. It is one of the most symbolically important buildings in the nation. At the time of the attack, a joint session of Congress was…
Read More »Despair, disgust, danger and domestic terrorism on Capitol Hill by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. First they ignored Donald Trump’s self-dealing and shattering of norms. Then they pooh-poohed the plot to abduct Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Then they bought into the lies about election fraud and attempts to overturn the results of the…
Read More »Recalling the 2000 Presidential Election
The extra-Constitutional drama that accompanied yesterday’s procedural (as opposed to adjudicatory) counting of state electoral votes by Congress made me recall the contested presidential election of 2000. Here is an essay I wrote back then. It is in two parts: one before the outcome was determined; another afterwards. Remember as…
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