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Here’s another photo and post by Amy Bisson. The Northern Canal Walkway has been quite accessible this summer, but even so, whenever I see the gates open, I like to take advantage of this quiet walk. The Merrimack River is normally rock-strewn at this point; this summer the water levels…
Read More »About 15 years ago we departed Lowell for a week-long family hiking trip to Arcadia State Park in Maine and helped the long drive pass more quickly by listening to a book on tape. Our selection was perfect for the occasion: A Walk in the Woods, a 1998 best-seller by…
Read More »With all the walking and talking about walking going on in the city, I thought I’d share this poem from 1984, which originally appeared in my book STRONG PLACE: POEMS ’74-’84 and was reprinted in WHAT IS THE CITY? in 2006. In the ’80s, I had a Sunday routine of…
Read More »At the New Bedford Whaling Museum yesterday, Rosemary and I found in the gift shop a collectible mug whose design features about 20 memorable first lines of books, including Melville’s “Call me Ishmael.” from MOBY DICK, which is why they had it on sale, but the mug also had “I…
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School’s Back School began this week in Lowell, both Lowell Public and UMass Lowell. I know UMass is back because the biggest education news of this week was the escape of some biology professor’s tarantula. Watching New England Cable News the other morning, old friend Latoya Edwards teased an upcoming…
Read More »Earlier this summer I noticed that Amy Bisson, a friend who had just retired from teaching at Lowell’s Lincoln Elementary School, was regularly posting photos of Lowell that she took while walking around. I asked her this weekend if she would be willing to share some of her photographs and…
Read More »The following real estate sales took place in Lowell last week: August 31, 2015 – Monday 80 Swan St Unit 220 for $193,000. Prior sale in 2005 for $254,000 23-33 Middle St Unit 15 for $183,000. Prior sale in 2007 for $165,000 262 Hovey St for $255,000. Prior sale in…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Federal Judge Richard Berman nullified Tom Brady’s four-game suspension Thursday, and suddenly all was right with the world. Signs at the final preseason game declared with relief “Tom Brady is Free” and “Richard Berman for President.” Why not? Even…
Read More »Here we go again. Labor Day is near, and the four-year presidential election cycle will shift into high gear. For months, we had media reports of candidates tromping through the hills and valleys of our neighbor state New Hampshire. I’ve written about this before, but I have to repeat that…
Read More »For anyone who needs a reminder about the distinctive region around us, just check the new issue of the New Yorker magazine with two major articles about historical happenings and people from our general area. Our local history keeps making news. Pulitzer Prize-winner Stacy Shiff writes about “The Witches of Salem:…
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