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There is no City Council meeting this week due to school vacation so focus shifts to state politics today. State Democratic Convention While the 2020 Presidential election gets all of the attention these days, there will also be a state election this fall. All members of the state legislature –…
Read More »Heart of Glass By David Daniel Walking along the beach with Jasmyn, holding her hand, both bundled against the mid-February air, William found himself thinking of another time, another woman . . . “Oh my God!” Lucinda had squealed. “Thank you!” William blushed when she kissed him. “It’s only glass.”…
Read More »Legendary Lowell Sun newspaperman Charles G. Sampas called Joseph V. Kopycinski “tireless” in his work on behalf of his school and city, according to Archivist Tony Sampas of the UMass Lowell Libraries. Tony brought to our attention an impressive page on the UML website recognizing a “Renaissance Man,” one of…
Read More »It’s Time to Vote Up or Shut Up By George Chigas As much as we like to rail against “he who must not be named,” it’s ultimately not his fault. He’s just doing what a [noun of orange hue] would normally do in his situation. If the zookeeper decides to…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. If you believe in the U. S. Constitution, the dignity of the Presidency, the value of science, the importance of truth, civility and commitment to oaths to which one has sworn, this week has been a nightmare for…
Read More »Here are the motions on the agenda for this Tuesday’s Lowell City Council meeting: Councilor Mercier – Req. City Council create an ordinance or file a Home Rule Petition that prevents a City Councilor from holding another elective office during their term. Councilor Samaras – Req. City Mgr. create a…
Read More »‘Ste. Therese”: An Essay by Paul Marion The second issue of Resonance, a bilingual online journal at UMaine-Orono , has an essay of mine about growing up as a French Canadian-American Catholic. The issue has familiar names, including two others linked to Lowell, Emilie-Noelle Provost, with a short story, “The…
Read More »One of our regular contributors, Chath pierSath, is back in Bolton, Mass., after several months in Cambodia. We have light snow today, but with the mild weather this past week Chath was out pruning on the farm where he works. He sent this poem about the seasonal work on the…
Read More »Christine P. O’Connor is a writer and attorney in Lowell. She has an essay in the literary anthology Atlantic Currents: Connecting Cork and Lowell, which is forthcoming in April. This is her first appearance on the Howe blog. The essay surfaced on her Facebook page a few days ago, after…
Read More »Recent headlines report the spread of the coronavirus around the world which makes it a useful time to recall perhaps the deadliest epidemic to ever strike Lowell. It was influenza but was also known as the Spanish Flu or the grippe. It struck in the fall of 1918, just as…
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