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Back when we still had snow measured in feet rather than in memories, I felt the need to go somewhere south of here. For reasons I won’t get into, Florida wasn’t an option and we’d already been to Charleston and Savannah. Once I discovered that Southwest flew direct from Boston…
Read More »Here’s another post by Jim Peters about events in Lowell 150 years ago this month: The Lowell Courier has been my main source of information for the reaction of the people of Lowell, who lost many soldiers on the Union side, in the War Between the States. If it is…
Read More »Rosemary and I had a lively swing through the Farm Market at Mill No. 5 this afternoon, which was busy with people. The Purple Carrot bakers made 54 loaves of bread this morning and sold all of them. The bakers want to open an artisanal shop in Lowell. Right now…
Read More »I visited Nashville, Tennessee this week (I’ll have a post about that later today) so I had to step away from the rhythms of Lowell and its politics. Last night I did watch a replay of Tuesday night’s council meeting and have posted my notes below: Lowell City Council Meeting:…
Read More »April 20, 2015 – Monday Patriots Day – no recordings April 21, 2015 – Tuesday 157 Smith St unit $230,000. Prior sale in 2008 for $185,000 49 Cambridge St Unit 6 for $70,000. Prior sale in 2011 for $65,000 49-51 Cambridge St Unit 5 for $85,000. Prior sale 2011 foreclosure…
Read More »From the Zinn Education Project on Facebook: “On April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, the Nazis tested their new air force on the Basque town of Gernika in northern Spain. One-third of Gernika’s 5,000 inhabitants were killed or wounded. Pablo Picasso exposed the horror of the bombing in…
Read More »I posted this commentary on my Facebook page just now. It might be helpful to our blog readers to know what a great experience we had at the new and much anticipated Bishop’s Legacy restaurant in Downtown Lowell. There is truly a Bishop’s legacy in the Merrimack Valley and many…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Back in the 1990’s, new House Speaker Newt Gingrich made me furious with his Contract with America, which critics dubbed the Contract on America. It was an era of slash-and-burn, anti-government GOP ascendancy, when in 1995 the Republican Party took over…
Read More »The angle of the sun, the budding of the trees and shrubs, the pollen count, the coming of colors over the landscape ~ all tell us that it’s Spring!
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