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Speeches, songs, poems, prayers, concerts, dances, lights, pushes, shoves and much more! – (PIP #99) – Louise Peloquin Celebrations have changed but the message is still Happy Birthday Lowell! __________ L’Etoile – Front page March 2, 1926 LOWELL CELEBRATES ITS CENTENNIAL IN SPLENDID STYLE __________ WITH WIDESPREAD AND INDESCRIBABLE…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Correspondent by Virginia Evans is a beautifully written novel in epistolary style, presented as a series of fictional letters, mostly penned by one Sybil Van Antwerp over eighty+ years. Even as a child, she wrote letters, finding it easier…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Call me a masochist. I watched all of Trump’s State-of-the-Union speech. The President painted a picture of the nation as he wanted to see it. It was a swirling mix of fantasy, twisted rhetoric and outright lies. We’ve…
Read More »Happy Birthday to Lowell! Two hundred years ago today the legislation that created the town of Lowell took effect. **** Debate over a proposed lease for the Lowell Senior Center dominated Tuesday’s city council meeting (February 24, 2026). In the end, it failed on a tie vote with Councilors Dan…
Read More »Time of the End of the Season Part Three By Bob Hodge 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…
Read More »You Need to Work on Your Sweeping By Rich Grady It’s been nearly four years since my wife passed away. I think of her all the time. Every morning when I walk into the kitchen, I grab the broom and start to sweep, as she always did. I am always…
Read More »Diners By Leo Racicot Diners are as American as mom and apple pie. In the late part of the 18th century, an enterprising Providence, Rhode Island man, Walter Scott, began serving night workers (newspaper employees, nighttime vending hawkers, graveyard shift factory workers) sandwiches and coffee out of his horse-drawn wagon. The…
Read More »Welcome to this week’s edition of Seen and Heard, in which I catalog the most interesting things I’ve seen, heard and read over the previous seven days. Book Review: 1929: “Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History and How it Shattered a Nation” by Andrew Ross Sorkin – This…
Read More »Happy 100th to the town become a city! – (PIP #98) By Louise Peloquin L’Etoile – March 1, 1926 front page LOWELL IS JUBILANT It is estimated that one fourth of the population is participating today, one way or another, in the three different events to celebrate Lowell’s 100th…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild was first published in 1998, but its 2020 relaunch, with a forward by noted author Barbara Kingsolver and the author’s own afterword, attests to its relevance today. A dogged historical researcher, Hochschild…
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