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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I voted Saturday. I responded to a universal mailing from the Secretary of State’s office, indicating I wanted a mail-in ballot. The pandemic has blunted my decades-long pleasure of going to the local polling place and participating with…
Read More »Thanks to Nancye Tuttle for sharing this story which originally appeared in the Portland Press Herald. After the Storm By Nancye Tuttle ‘Don’t pick up the baby. Whatever you do, don’t pick up the baby.” My father-in-law’s voice boomed over the intercom from the flying bridge of his vessel, the…
Read More »Car Wash Dreams By David Daniel It was in August before my senior year in high school when the new car wash came to our small town. A fresh concept in automobile care is how it was advertised, and it opened with a lot of fanfare. Robo-Kleen’s promise was to…
Read More »Historian Paul Hudon of Lowell is back with his diary that he’s been sharing with our readers. Diary in the Time of Coronavirus (10) by Paul Hudon August 2, 2020 Trump promoted a biological threat to his own species for partisan interest. A category error. When a man is foolish…
Read More »Another installment of our Lowell Lists series. Constitutional Officers Here is a list of those who have held the offices created by the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Treasurer and Auditor) from 1970 to the present. Governor Francis W. Sargent…
Read More »Linda Hoffman has a new post on her Apples, Art, and Spirit blog. This week, Linda writes about fertilizer. Specifically, the great harm being done by the widespread use of synthetic fertilizer (which she points out cause last week’s massive explosion in Lebanon). Linda calls for a new agricultural model which…
Read More »In this photo essay, Beginning Again, contemplative photographer, writer and award-winning blogger, Catherine Drea reflects on the experience of being in lockdown during COVID-19. Her place is rural County Waterford in south-east Ireland and her reflections and stunning photographs show us the art of paying attention, always with an eye…
Read More »Tom Sexton has two poetry books due in the next several months, Snowy Egret Rising (Chester Creek Press) and Cummiskey Alley: New and Selected Lowell Poems (Loom Press). He’s in Alaska this season, but he and his wife, Sharyn, also keep a home in Eastport, Maine, where they often stay…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I was never a big fan of Kamala Harris when she was running for President. Yet I am surprisingly pleased by her selection to be Joe Biden’s running mate. The former California Attorney General and San Francisco district…
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