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Today is the 99th birthday of the National Park Service and is the beginning of a year-long celebration leading to the centennial celebration in 2016. As part of this anniversary observation, the National Park Service asks people to discover their parks, not only official National Parks but also urban parks,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Summer reading 2015 would not be complete without Go Set a Watchman, the book that Harper Lee reportedly wrote before she published To Kill a Mockingbird. It is told from the perspective of Atticus Finch’s daughter Scout (now…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. A late Labor Day and temporary physical disability have extended my usual orgy of summer reading, with both non-fiction and fiction offerings to share with you. Because time is running out, I’ll keep the list short. In the…
Read More »Yesterday morning I joined nearly 40 others at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum courtyard for a Ranger-led walk to the Pawtucket Gatehouse at the O’Donnell Bridge on School Street. Our path was along the Riverwalk and the Northern Canal Walkway. The Riverwalk portion took as behind the Tsongas Center, the…
Read More »John Edward, who teaches economics at Bentley and UMass Lowell, frequently contributes columns on economic issues Actually, President Herbert Hoover was wrong about a lot. He was correct on one topic. When it came to tax policy and the business of America, Coolidge was wrong, but Hoover was right. The…
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Candidates for City Council and School Committee This past week the Election Commission finalized the list of candidates for City Council and School Committee (listed below). The city election will be held this year on Tuesday, November, 3, 2015. Each voter may vote for up to nine candidates for council…
Read More »A slow week for real estate sales in Lowell: August 17, 2015 – Monday 201 Thorndike St Unit 2-210 for $147,250. Prior sale in 2010 for $97,650 112 Upham St for $248,000. Prior sale in 1997 for $129,900 24 O’Connell St for $219,900. Prior sale in 2003 for $160,000 35…
Read More »Sorting old files in the attic yesterday, I found a New Yorker article I had torn out of the magazine and stapled: “A Reporter at Large: Memories of a Day’s Walk from Massachusetts to Maine” by Anthony Bailey, a Londoner who was raised in “old Hampshire.” The story is from…
Read More »My Tuesday blog post recounting my search for lunch in downtown Lowell was so well-received that I thought I would do it again. Well that’s not entirely true. Not everyone received it well, but no matter. Today was still sunny and warm at noon, but the air was much more…
Read More »Web photo courtesy of commons.wikimedia.org With purple loosestrife spread across the region, I thought I’d re-post this prose poem from years ago.–PM . Long Purples People write letters to writers, and sometimes the mail is a gift. Not long ago, Bill Martin wrote to tell me that he’d read a…
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