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Dark-eyed junco (image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) Whittier in the Woods Making cornbread during a storm, Which dropped a foot of snow on us, I saw the actual John Greenleaf In a wide-brimmed hat step from the woods Behind our house, his bushy beard icicled. When I waved, he raised…
Read More »Television Review: “Aaron Rodgers: Enigma” — An Abstruse Athlete Review by David Daniel This review originally appeared on The Arts Fuse (which is “Boston’s Premier Online Arts Magazine” – please check it out.) **** Near the end of Enigma, a new Netflix documentary about Aaron Rodgers, there’s a segment that…
Read More »LHS a century ago – (PIP #55) By Louise Peloquin To echo Richard Howe’s January 12, 2025 substack (1), here is a throwback into Lowell High School. L’Etoile – September 17, 1924 THE HIGH SCHOOL BARELY SUFFICES FOR ALL OF THE STUDENTS There are 2510 students this year. – That…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. January 20, 2025. The sun is shining, but it gives no warmth. The air is frigid, and we’re told that it’s going to be getting much colder. Irrespective of changing seasons, things might be consistently unpleasant for…
Read More »Tuesday’s Lowell City Council meeting was brief with just three motions and a handful of motion responses on the agenda. None seemed controversial. In the absence of any pressing council business, today I’ll provide a preview of the coming city election which will be held on Tuesday, November 4, 2025.…
Read More »Web photo courtesy of LIFE magazine, 1965 The Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 On November 9, 1965, when the lights went out from Lake Ontario east to Boston and south to New York City, sinking thirty million people at home or work into darkness, my family was ready to sit…
Read More »BOOK REVIEW: The Pride of the ACRE Book by Stephen O’Connor Review by Ed DeJesus Participants of this blog would agree that reading distinguished Lowell, MA author Stephen O’Connor’s short stories and novels is always a joy. But his latest, “The Pride of the ACRE, is a gem! Move over…
Read More »Watching the Merrimack By Jacqueline Malone Water takes what is given and makes visible the wind, the pull of gravity, time in the constant erosion of riverbeds, the constant deposit of gravelly isles. Water mixes, transforms, dissolves, and returns silt,…
Read More »Snow was general all over Lowell – (PIP #54) By Louise Peloquin These accounts of winter in New England demonstrate the newspaper’s regard for the local community. The reader shares the city’s concern for its citizens and for its public service employees as they pursue daily activities or revel…
Read More »In honor of today’s observation of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, here’s a story of King’s visit to Lowell, Massachusetts. In honor of today’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, here’s a reminder that King visited Lowell on April 12, 1953. Rev. Otto Loverude, the pastor of the First…
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