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Jack Kerouac Writing ‘The Town and the City’ (1948)
Here’s the Mass Moments for today. Kerouac is writing “The Town and the City” in 1948, which would be his first published novel (1950).
Read More »Commonwealth Conversations comes to Lowell
Last evening, hosted by State Senator Eileen Donoghue and led by Senate President Stan Rosenberg, nearly one-third of the entire Massachusetts State Senate came to Lowell for the latest Commonwealth Conversations session. Senators present (shown seated at the table in the above photo, from left to right, while being welcomed…
Read More »Trump budget: keeping his promises? by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. colorbox.com graphic They say it’s DOA – that all Presidents’ budgets are dead on arrival. We might want to think this is just the opening gambit from the central player in The Art of the Deal, in this…
Read More »Go to England; Discover Kerouac
Go to England; Discover Kerouac By Mike Boudreau Mike Boudreau grew up crisscrossing the city of Boston before settling in Tyngsboro, MA, in 2002. After a 28-year career in the U.S. Air Force, he returned to New England and earned a Masters in Community and Social Psychology at UMASS Lowell…
Read More »Lowell Week in Review: March 19, 2017
City Council Meeting With the cancellation of last Tuesday’s council meeting due to winter storm Stella, this coming Tuesday’s meeting will be a long one. The eleven motions related to the Lowell High expansion that I wrote about last Sunday will all be heard, plus the council will take up…
Read More »Manning Field
Manning Field, a little-known complex of two Little League/softball fields on Boston Road on the southern perimeter of Lowell, has been in the news lately as a possible “replication” site for greenspace at Cawley Stadium that is encumbered by state use restrictions. The city wants the option of constructing a…
Read More »What Now Stella?
Why do we name all our storms these days? It seemed easier just to name hurricanes! With storm Stella we hear of a “weather bomb” or ‘bombogenesis’ – it lacks the poetics of Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Announced by all the trumpets of the sky…” or John Greenleaf Whittier: “The wind…
Read More »Winter Storm Stella
A look out the window at 6 am revealed a thin white coating of snow on the cars and driveway, but the yard’s patches of dormant grass were fully visible. Only the bare patches were white. The snow had only just begun. Wakeup came later than usual on a weekday…
Read More »Gone Lowell: Dummer Street, late 1970s.
Another image from Lowell’s past . . . The original DeMoulas Supermarket on Dummer Street. Now the municipal parking lot at Dummer and Market Street, behind the Whistler House Museum of Art.
Read More »Florida escape warm but no political respite by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Twelve days in Florida were a therapeutic escape from grey snow and brutal cold in Massachusetts, but even in the Sunshine State one couldn’t escape the maladies of the political environment. A tour boat along the inland waterway near…
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