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Paul Hudon: ‘Diary in the Time of Coronavirus’ (5)
May 18, 2020
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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 »The Canals of Lowell
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 »Spring Nettles by Linda Hoffman
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 »PASTEUR AND UNCLE PADDY by Margaret O’Brien
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 »Throwback Thursday: May 8, 2008
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 »Joey Pauletto Profiles Author Stephen O’Connor
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…
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Michael Edema Leary-Owhin: Photos of London in Lockdown (April)
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…
Read More »Paul Hudon: Diary in the Time of Coronavirus (4)
May 10, 2020
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PaulM
Posted in Lowell Places, Election 2020, 2020 Election, Coronavirus 2020, Culture, Current Events
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Historian Paul Hudon sent his fourth week of diary entries during the virus crisis. Along with him we are all feeling “the world is too much with us” (nod to Wordsworth) with this long-running health catastrophe. Making sense of this new condition takes all our wits. Late in the week…
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