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In pencil – (PIP #28) By Louise Peloquin L’Etoile published many accounts of young locals serving abroad during World War II. Here is an example: L’Etoile – June 30, 1944 Soldier Marcouillier proud of his experiences Words of gratitude addressed to the Franco-American Club of Dracut which is interested in…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. An Unfinished Love Affair: a Personal History of the 1960’s by historian and biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin is the book I have been waiting for, and it doesn’t disappoint. It is an intimately told, stunningly impactful history of the…
Read More »Much of Tuesday’s Lowell City Council meeting was devoted to the need for sidewalks on Campbell Drive, a 1960s-era residential street in the Highlands that’s home to the Bailey Elementary School. The school, which was constructed in the 1990s, is set back from the road and connected to Campbell Drive…
Read More »I Won’t Have To Shave By Ed DeJesus My father, Tony DeJesus, was born in Lowell in 1910. He served eight years in the Mass National Guard until his 26th Infantry Yankee Division was mustered into the Army in 1941 to join the WW II European forces. He was an…
Read More »Living Madly: Natural Wonders By Emilie-Noelle Provost Looking directly at the sun for more than a few seconds will damage your retina. Because I didn’t have protective glasses to wear during the solar eclipse on April 8, I used the camera on my phone to watch the moon gradually overtake…
Read More »The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. The Lioness of Boston by Emily Franklin is a lush historical novel about Isabella Stewart Gardner, Belle of Boston, an upper class young woman who refused to limit herself to the cultural norms prescribed by the wealthy social elite of…
Read More »Alison By David Daniel At six p.m. the bar in the hotel lobby in Montego Bay is already busy, revelers tuning up to ring in the New Year. Passing, carrying my suitcase and a large gym bag, I hear someone call my name. Carl and Babs, a couple I got…
Read More »In last week’s newsletter I wrote of the coming confrontation between the Lowell City Council and Sal Lupoli over his failure to commence work on one of the two buildings he had agreed to construct in the Hamilton Canal Innovation District (HCID). The Council’s Economic Development subcommittee heard from Mr.…
Read More »Actually, I almost died four times that summer By Charlie Gargiulo After me and mom finally got kicked out of one of the last apartment buildings left in Little Canada, we got placed in an apartment next door to where our old building still stood, waiting for the wrecking ball…
Read More »Liberty Bonds – (PIP #27) By Louise Peloquin Last week’s peek into the past – “The Franco-Americans of Lowell in the War effort” – mentions World War II government bonds. (1) Twenty-seven years earlier, during World War I, L’Etoile was also encouraging its readership to purchase them. L’Etoile – October 24, 1917…
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