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Last Thursday, the people of Great Britain voted to leave the European Union. John Wooding, a native of England and a professor of political science at UMass Lowell for many years, shared on Facebook his thoughts on the Brexit vote outcome. John, who has contributed a number of articles to…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Fasten your seatbelts. The ride’s going to get even bumpier. A word that few on this side of the pond had heard six months ago may portend greater troubles in the United States. Brexit, shorthand for the…
Read More »This is the third in a series of columns by John Edward, who teaches economics at Bentley and UMass Lowell, on economic issues related to the upcoming presidential election. The first column, “The 100 Percent,” appeared on May 16, 2016; the second, “Voodoo Two,” on May 23, 2016. In 1987,…
Read More »Marie Sweeney was thinking about Catherine Goodwin today and shares the following . . . This photo of Catherine Goodwin in St. Patrick’s Cemetery popped-up in my Facebook feed this morning. With all the Lowell Walks Tours starting and my Saturday morning visit to the Lowell Cemetery for the Art…
Read More »I missed a couple of weeks of real estate postings. Here they are, all at once. May 30, 2016 – Monday Memorial Day – no sales May 31, 2016 – Tuesday 125 Billings St for $240,000. Prior sale in 2002 for $211,150 515 East Merrimack St for $169,900. Prior sale…
Read More »From “History of Chelmsford” by Wilson Waters and Henry Spaulding Perham (Courier Citizen, 1917): “… Down as late as 1820, there were caught, mostly at this spot [site of the large mill of the Middlesex Company], and at the foot of Pawtucket falls, twenty-five hundred barrels of salmon, shad, and…
Read More »Just a quick update. I finally got around to Googling to identify the prolific yellow flower that’s been a star in my main garden for the past few years. See the image below for the Coreopsis Moonbeam or maybe Zagreb. With a big patch of them, as in my case,…
Read More »Perkins Place If you wanted to create a training film on how to best advocate your case before the city council, the remarks by residents of Perkins Place at last Tuesday’s council meeting would be a good starting point. Councilor Dan Rourke perhaps best illustrated how the residents’ oratory had…
Read More »Marie Sweeney attended the Lowell Cemetery Art Show today and composed the following post: On this gorgeous day what better place to be but in a garden! This morning I attended an Art Show arrayed below the spectacular canopy of a thick-trunked, leafy-branched, golden brown European Beech tree in the…
Read More »Here’s another bulletin from the South Common Historic District about the cultivated and wild things on my property.–PM Today’s picture is a small garden tower delivered by my brother Richard, my oldest brother, who is good at finding unusual items along the way. Arriving home one afternoon recently, I saw…
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