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Looking through the Arts & Leisure section of the New York Times today, I saw a full page ad for a book called “Footsteps: Literary Pilgrimages Around the World,” which is drawn from past travel columns in the Times. The Times is considered by many people as the paper of…
Read More »This is the sixteenth weekly installment of my Lowell in World War One series which commemorates the centennial of the entry of the United States into World War One. Here are the headlines from one hundred years ago this week: July 23, 1917 – Monday – Lowell exemption boards meet.…
Read More »We have a new poem from Tom Sexton today, which he sent from his home in Alaska. In this new composition Tom recreates an extended moment in his Lowell youth, reflecting on a kind of confusion most of us have experienced. The details are just right in this self-portrait of…
Read More »2017 Lowell Folk Festival This year’s Lowell Folk Festival kicks off Friday night with a parade at 6:30 pm and the opening ceremony at Boarding House Park at 7 pm. The Festival website provides a full schedule of performances and activities. Musical performers this year include an Afro-Venezuelan group from…
Read More »Please join us this Saturday, July 22, 2017, for a Lowell Walk on Lowell Fires and the Lowell Fire Department. The tour begins at 10 am from Lowell National Park Visitor Center, is free, and lasts about 90 minutes. The tour will be led by Jason Strunk, a captain of…
Read More »This is the third batch of those who contributed works to History as It Happens: Community Bloggers in Lowell, Mass. our forthcoming book of community writing by more than 40 contributors to this website over the past ten years. (See the first group of contributors here and the second group…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Finally, a good Russian story. No, not Vladimir Putin or lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, who met with DJT, Jr. Instead, it was Daniil Trifonovv, the brilliant young pianist who thrilled audiences last week at Tanglewood Music Center, the summer…
Read More »This is the fifteenth weekly installment of my Lowell in World War One series which commemorates the centennial of the entry of the United States into World War One. Since I skipped posting last Monday, this week’s edition features two weeks of headlines from one hundred years ago this week:…
Read More »Thanks to Paul Marion for pinch hitting for me in this space last Sunday. I was away for a few days visiting Washington, DC, and vicinity. In a way, the trip became a hunt for Lowell connections in American history. I found many, which I will write about separately in…
Read More »Maybe the American Psychological Association (APA) can add a new syndrome to the behaviors that members of the APA observe and treat. I don’t know what else to call it other than Trump-Monitoring Fatigue. I’m not so far over the edge that I need to check in with a…
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