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Michael Casey’s latest book is There It Is: New & Selected Poems, which is available at loompress.com or amazon.com. He lives in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts. Remembrance . a pretty girl on my street wanted to be a writer and was taking home economic courses because women are not…
Read More »Diary in the Time of Coronavirus (5) by Paul Hudon *10th May River hawk glides into view, low-flying, heading west. Spirit lifting visual context. Escape. *11th May When Death is roaming the streets of your city, can God thinking be far behind? God, the paramour, the paradox, the paradigm of…
Read More »This video is a 30 minute tour of the Lowell canal system that uses contemporary photos and landmarks to identify and describe each of the major canals constructed in Lowell in the 1800s. One of the reasons there is a National Park in Lowell is that all of those canals…
Read More »The following by Linda Hoffman was originally posted on her own blog, Welcome to Apples, Art, and Spirit!, and is reposted here with Linda’s permission. Spring Nettles: Gifts from the Great Mother By Linda Hoffman Squatting in a patch of stinging nettles with my foraging basket, and rubber gloves, I…
Read More »Trasna editor Margaret O’Brien’s timely piece,“Pasteur and Uncle Paddy,” is about a deadly virus, her great-grandmother Mary, and one of the world’s most famous scientists. Today the world is in the grip of a pandemic because of COVID-19, the deadly Coronavirus. Although it has claimed many lives and disrupted economic and social…
Read More »Another Throwback Thursday post. Today we go back to May 8, 2008, when gas costs $4 per gallon. Victory Gardens By: Dick Howe 5/8/2008 Corn, of all things, plays a major role in our current economic woes. The high price of oil and government mandates to find alternative fuels has…
Read More »Joseph Pauletto grew up in the northern suburbs of Chicago before studying journalism at Boston University. His writing includes music criticism, as well as literary research and journalism. In high school, he was the station manager of WGBK radio, ran varsity track and cross country, and played jazz guitar. A…
Read More »Michael Edema Leary-Owhin is the author of Exploring the Production of Urban Space: international comparisons of three post-industrial cities (University of Chicago Press, 2016), a study of Lowell; Manchester, England; and a section of Vancouver, Canada. A pdf is available here. Michael sent us a recent set of 40 photographs…
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