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The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. After the Last Border by Jessica Goudreau should be required reading for people who fear or loathe strangers coming to the United States to avoid persecution, war and chaos in their home countries. The author tells of two such women, weaving…
Read More »The Lowell City Council met on Tuesday night and completed a lengthy agenda that covered many topics. In today’s newsletter, I’ll focus on two of them. One of the council’s first votes was to cancel the next council meeting which was scheduled for August 26, 2025. This will create a…
Read More »North Common, 1960s By Leo Racicot Not every kid can boast that his front yard was a nine-acre park. I can. Our house was right across the street from North Common, a charming expanse of green in summer, white in winter. All my sister and I had to do was…
Read More »Mike McCormack, originally of Haverhill, Mass., is a long-time resident of Alaska where he became a close friend of poet Tom Sexton (1940-2025). Mike is a past contributor to this blog and to The Lowell Review. He wrote this introduction for Tom’s final book, Dark Cloud in Isabel Pass, published…
Read More »This article originally appeared on this site last week, however, due to technical difficulties it was only visible later in the day so it is being reposted today. Remembering My Father, Robert T. Reilly By Eoin Reilly So my father wrote a lot. He also was from Lowell and ran…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford is a quickly unspooling, cinematic mystery set in the fictional city of Cahokia, during the 1920’s. (The real Cahokia had vanished by 1200 C.E., leaving behind only mounds of grass-covered dirt in Illinois, near the…
Read More »During the summer, the Lowell City Council meets on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. That usually translates to a meeting every other week, but this year’s calendar has given us a gap of three weeks between meetings with the next one coming this Tuesday, August 12, 2025.…
Read More »Remembering My Father, Robert T. Reilly By Eoin Reilly So my father wrote a lot. He also was from Lowell and ran track with Ed McMahon and Jack Kerouac. Oh…he also had a lot of kids and moved to where he could afford to raise them without crime being involved.…
Read More »Remembering 1968 By Leo Racicot Even now, almost sixty years later, when I hear the year 1968 mentioned, my mind instantly goes to April and June of that awful year. In April, the great Civil Rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr., was gunned down by an assassin, James Earl Ray, on…
Read More »The Night I Met the Kinks in Lowell By Charlie Gargiulo One of the greatest memories of my life took place one Saturday night in May 1970 at the Commodore Ballroom, our personal live sixties music shrine, and Lowell’s spiritual counterpart to Liverpool’s old Cavern Club, after serving as our…
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