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Checking the Property
Inspired by last week’s Presidential Inauguration, Paul Marion shares this poem from his book, Union River: Poems and Sketches (2017), available at www.loompress.com CHECKING THE PROPERTY by Paul Marion My nine-year-old son says, “I’m going to read the ‘Gettysburg Address.’” What’s the Lincoln shorthand? Freed the slaves, saved the union.…
Read More »Medical mecca messes up measures to vaccinate by Marjorie Arons Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When will we become eligible for COVID immunization? How will we be informed? Where is the state on moving from Phase One to Phase Two? Where will we be able to go to get the vaccine? How do…
Read More »Night Roller Coaster
New fiction from David Daniel Night Roller Coaster By David Daniel The red T-Bird bled through the darkness, Hayden hunched over the steering wheel. The digital speedometer showed 83 mph. I was riding shotgun. If we hit anything, Hayden at least had something to hang onto, probably flatten his face,…
Read More »Boarding School Blues, chapter 4
Boarding School Blues By Louise Peloquin Chapter 4: Au revoir! Blanche knew how important it was to keep abreast of the news. Her parents made reading the press and listening to radio broadcasts part of the daily routine. Social agitation characterized the summer of ’65. Vietnam war protests were spreading…
Read More »Lowell Real Estate in 2020
Local Real Estate in 2020 The year 2020 will always be known for the Covid-19 pandemic but it has also been an incredible year for real estate. The number of deeds recorded at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds in 2020 and the median price of those deeds are both…
Read More »Atlantic Currents, Connecting Cork and Lowell Through Learning
January 23, 2021
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Chris O'Connor
Posted in Ireland, Culture, Education, History, Lowell, Trasna
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Atlantic Currents is an anthology of sixty-five writers from Ireland and the United States. The book grew from the efforts of John Wooding, a former Provost at UMass, to have Lowell designated a UNESCO Learning City. Working with co-editors Paul Marion of Loom Press and Tina Neylon of the Cork…
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Whew!! by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. He’s gone. With pomp, puffery and pettiness, the worst President in U.S. history has left a White House and Washington defiled by Donald Trump’s four painfully long years. The bill of particulars is too numerous to recount, save…
Read More »Unity shouldn’t mean impunity by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. President Joe Biden is setting the right tone in calling for healing and unity in our nation, a welcome change from the outgoing President. But that doesn’t mean turning a blind eye to Donald Trump’s inciting insurrection or…
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