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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Guardian Yesterday’s message? It was a sad day for the country but a good day for Constitutional democracy. The Democrats greeted the approval of two Articles of Impeachment with the solemnity and gravity the event warranted. Donald…
Read More »As we continue to build the “Literary Lowell+” section of this blog site, this addition is not a new name around Greater Lowell. George Chigas, Ph.D., is Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of World Languages & Cultures at UMass Lowell. George has been a contributor to this blog and…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. After an expected vote for impeachment in the House of Representatives, the fate of Donald Trump will move to the U.S. Senate, where the prospects for the triumph of Constitutional values are bleak and where GOP stalwarts like…
Read More »Here’s a 2011 video of local residents reciting “A Visit from St. Nicholas”
Read More »John Wooding recently retired from his position as professor in the Department of Political Science at UMass Lowell. He is an occasional contributor to this blog. Born in Northampton, England, John is a U.S. citizen now, but retains strong ties to the UK through family, friends, and colleagues. He offers…
Read More »The Christmas Fruitcake: An Ageless Tradition by Henri Marchand A note from the author: Like its subject this essay has been around, appearing first as a Sunrise radio essay on WUML-FM, re-wrapped as a “Guest Column” piece in the Sun newspaper, and showing up on this blog for the past…
Read More »With an election in the UK coming up soon, here’s a look back at the 2015 election by John Wooding, born in Northampton, England, and now a US citizen, who taught political science at UMass Lowell for many years. This is the election that led to the Brexit (British exit…
Read More »One of our occasional contributors, the poet-painter-farmer-social activist Chath pierSath is traveling in his homeland, Cambodia, and sending daily dispatches as poems and paintings on his Facebook page. A refugee from the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, Chath came to America as a boy and after various moves settled…
Read More »Yesterday’s Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day ceremony at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium featured the release of Community and Country: Greater Lowell Veterans Council, 1919-2019. Co-authored by former Veterans Council commander Bob Casper and me, the book tells the story in text and photos of the many organizations that are or have…
Read More »Frank Wagner is a former news director at KWHI in Brenham, Texas. Born in Corpus Christi, Frank earned degrees in English and Political Science from Southwest Texas/Texas State-San Marcos. He visited Lowell in 2007 to see the exhibition of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” scroll typescript and stays up-to-date with…
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