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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 »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 »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 »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…
Read More »Writer Andrew Sullivan looks at (1) the weird speech suppression at Middlebury College that happened recently when students (and maybe other protestors) shut down a guest speaker and (2) the damage Pres. Trump is doing with his attacks on reality, facts, and the American Way. Read the essay here, and…
Read More »Two weeks ago, I wrote an article that explained how the various parcels that constitute the Cawley Stadium site were compiled. In this article, I do the same for the current Lowell High site. As is often the case with land records, a bit of history is helpful. Founding of…
Read More »Jack Kerouac, March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969 Above photo is from “Kerouac Retrieved” exhibit at UMass Lowell’s Allen House, with text from the Beat Spotlight, Kerouac’s final and unfinished scroll composition.
Read More »Did you remember to move your clock ahead one hour last night? The Lowell Lions Club kindly invited me to give a talk on Lowell history at their Tuesday, March 7, 2017 meeting at the Olympia Restaurant. I spoke about Francis Cabot Lowell, the man for whom this city is…
Read More »The Curse of Double Telephone Poles By Mimi Parseghian If you drive from South Lowell/Lower Highlands towards Downtown there appears to be a demarcation line, where suddenly the streets seem brighter, less congested, and you can see the sky without any obstruction. All the utility wires are underground in the…
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