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Some Saturday morning cartoons from the past few weeks from our UK-based cartoonist, Nicholas Whitmore: …
Read More »THE WOOD OF O sings “Meadow Song” and Other Tracks
For the month of July, Trasna has been highlighting some of the literary and artistic events cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This week, in the spirit of the Lowell Folk Festival, we present The Wood of O, singer-songwriters Breege Phelan and Will McLellan. Based in South Tipperary, for the last two years, The…
Read More »From the Archives: Lowell Folk Festival
For nearly 30 years, the approach of the last weekend of July has signaled the arrival of the Lowell Folk Festival. That won’t be the case in this pandemic-fractured year. But here are a couple of reminders of what we’ll be missing . . . 2007 WOW Opening at the…
Read More »New Post on Apples, Art and Spirit Blog
Linda Hoffman has a fascinating new post on her Apples, Art, and Spirit blog. An accomplished artist as well as a farmer, Linda sculpts figures in wax. This post explains how a wax model is transformed into a bronze statue. Our journey of discovery involves a lavishly illustrated visit to…
Read More »Patti Smith’s “Year of the Monkey”: A Review
Good books retain their newsworthiness, so I’m recycling this review-essay about Patti Smith’s most recent book, Year of the Monkey, which I posted on my website, paulmarion.com, late last year. This piece was written before the coronavirus spread among us, a time that seems six years and not six months…
Read More »Peace Train: Congressman John Lewis, the Legacy of Nonviolent Resistance, & Richard Gregg
John Wooding, professor emeritus of political science at UMass Lowell, is the author of the forthcoming biography Gandhi’s American Friend: Richard Bartlett Gregg (Loom Press, October 2020). He is a past contributor to this blog and president of the board at Mill City Grows in Lowell. ‘Cause I’m on the…
Read More »Lowell Lists: Members of Congress
Today we’re introducing a new feature: Lowell Lists. Besides our ongoing presentation of new literary content by writers and poets from Lowell and beyond, we also hope to make this site the go-to place for information about Lowell. Since lists are a useful vehicle for presenting a large volume of…
Read More »Cartoons from Nicholas Whitmore
Some Saturday morning cartoons from the past few weeks from our UK-based cartoonist, Nicholas Whitmore:
Read More »John Lawlor, Philip Conway, Boston University and the continuity of a proud Irish athletic tradition … by Dr. Tom HUNT
For the month of July here on Trasna, we have been highlighting some of the literary and artistic events cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The other significant arena of cancellations due to COVID-19 is, of course, sport. Today we present an article by Irish sports historian, Dr. Tom Hunt,…
Read More »From the Archives: Comings and Goings
One of the things that has distinguished Lowell from other similar sized cities in post Industrial America is its willingness to keep moving forward. Some efforts work well, others don’t. But the critical thing is to keep trying. Today, we dipped back in the archives and found four such stories,…
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