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Helena Minton: Recent Book, New Poems, & Frost Foundation Work I’ve known Helena Minton since the 1980s, when she was publishing with Alice James Books, a collective effort to bring out the best new poetry, particularly by women writers. Her book The Canal Bed (1985) includes a long poem centered…
Read More »The “Lowell Doughboy” statue, located at the intersection of Fletcher and Willie streets, memorializes 36 men from Lowell’s Acre neighborhood who were killed or who died while serving in the US military during World War I. The statue was erected and dedicated in 1923 and has remained in the same…
Read More »Here’s another in my series of updates on active writers with a local/regional connection. I can see Exeter, N.H., from my house on a hill in Amesbury, so Matt W Miller is close by. Readers of this blog may know him from his Lowell days growing up and during high…
Read More »At bottom of lower right sidebar is a box titled “Browse Article Categories.” From the dropdown menu, select “WWI Lowell.” That will retrieve all blog posts related to World War I. Each week during 2017 and 2018, I had been posting newspaper headlines for that week 100 years ago as…
Read More »2019 City Election Politics in Lowell never takes a day off, so as soon as the November 6, 2018, state election was complete, thoughts turned to the 2019 city election which will be held next November with a preliminary election, if needed, in September. You can’t talk about the 2019…
Read More »Here’s the second update on writers in the area. Watch for a few more next week. — PM Emilie-Noelle Provost: First Novel & Back in the Magazine Biz Lowell writer Emilie-Noelle Provost, formerly editor-in-chief at 512 Media Inc. in Methuen, publisher of Merrimack Valley Magazine and The Bean Magazine, is…
Read More »In the next two weeks, I’ll post several updates about writers in the area who are familiar to many readers of this blog. The activity of these writers is interesting and substantial. They don’t have big marketing budgets to promote themselves, so it’s not easy for the public to keep…
Read More »Bob Hodge grew up in Lowell and went on to graduate from Lowell High (1973) and University of Lowell (1990). He was (and still is) one the greatest runners to come out of this region. He’s also a writer, having previously shared stories with us about his experiences with road…
Read More »Today I’m thinking of Thanksgiving eves past – the hustle and bustle of setting up three dinner tables, the dishes, decor, who was expected, who would sit where, who got to sit in the dining room – never any question about where Papa and Bill would sit – even as…
Read More »CITY CLERK Minutes of Zoning SC November 13th; City Council Meeting November 13th, for acceptance. Proclamation to Circle Health in honor of Home Health and Hospice Month. FROM CITY MANAGER Motion Responses National Grid Citywide Update – Manager Donoghue reports on meeting with National Grid last week. National Grid is…
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