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Jeb Lund lets it fly in ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine, seeing this massacre in South Carolina as part and parcel of the poisonous politics and culture in which we are immersed. There is something very sick upon the land.
Read More »Greater Lowell Area Democrats (GLAD) will meet tomorrow ~ Saturday morning June 20, 2015 at 8:00am/SHARP in the Independence Grill of the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford . Greater Lowell Area Democrats Regular Breakfast Meeting Saturday June 20, 2015 at 8:00 AM At the Independence Grill/ Radisson Hotel Rte. 110…
Read More »Tomorrow – Saturday, June 20, 2015 – is the Inside Lowell High School guided tour, part of the Lowell Walks summertime series. Meet at the National Park Visitor Center at 246 Market Street at 10 am to meet our tour guide, Lowell High Headmaster Brian Martin. The tour is free…
Read More »RFK on April 5, 1968.
Read More »Nancy Pitkin sent the following about an upcoming selection of the Pollard Memorial Library’s nonfiction book group: Father John’s Medicine is engraved in the lintel of one of the many renovated historic buildings in Lowell on Market Street and is now apartments. I’d always assumed that the name for Fr.…
Read More »John Edward, who teaches economics at Bentley and UMass Lowell, frequently contributes columns on economic issues. Here is his latest: Some public policies seem to contradict what would serve the public good. This column explains why that can happen. It has nothing to do with political parties. It is not…
Read More »Years ago, I wrote a rhyming poem about an incident at Bunker Hill described in Silas Coburn’s “History of Dracut.” The story is that Captain Peter Coburn of Dracut led a company of men from his town in the battle. He was shot by the British three times, in the…
Read More »Today is the 240th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. The battle is noteworthy because it was the first major engagement between the colonial militia and the British troops. Eight weeks earlier, an intense fight had occurred at Lexington, Concord and on the route back to Boston, but while…
Read More »Reaching back into the archive ~ While later today we will remember the 150th anniversary of the dedication of Lowell’s Ladd and Whitney Monument, we will also remember that today June 17 is “Bunker Hill Day” ~ Bunker Hill Day marks the anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, also known…
Read More »Lowell Walks/Public Art by Rosemary Noon At the invitation of Dick Howe, my husband, Paul, and I led a group of 110 people on a 90-minute tour of the Lowell Public Art Collection this past Saturday morning. It was the second installment in the Lowell Walks series for the summer.…
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