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I lived in Pawtucketville for several years, from the late 1970s to early ’80s. I often write in response to a place or to make sense of a place, and that neighborhood was no different. I lived on the top floor of an old triple-decker, a sea-green block on a…
Read More »In spite of the blizzard news, I must note that on this day – Janury 27, 2000 – the New England Patriot’s hired Bill Belichick as their 14th coach. And the rest – as they say – is history with perhaps more history to be made in 2015. From the…
Read More »My colleagues Dick and Paul have shared their memories of those days in early February of 1978 known now as the Blizzard of 1978. Checking the archive I found this narrative of my own experiences. I remember the Blizzard of ’78 as a challenge to dig out and feel reconnected…
Read More »Here’s an account of the Blizzard of 1978 that I wrote on its 15th anniversary in 1993. In February 1978, I was a sophomore at Providence College which is where I experienced that historic event. In the days before cameras were ubiquitous, all most of us have are our memories. …
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At 6:30 am on Monday, it’s 8 degrees and cloudy in Lowell. By this time yesterday, the National Weather Service had already issued a blizzard watch for eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island (since upgraded to a blizzard warning). Just moments ago, Matt Noyes on New England Cable News just said…
Read More »Blizzard Watch From the National Weather Service . . . THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A BLIZZARD WATCH…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY EVENING THROUGH LATE TUESDAY NIGHT. * LOCATIONS…EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND. * HAZARD TYPES…HEAVY SNOW…STRONG WINDS AND BLIZZARD CONDITIONS. CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW.…
Read More »The following real estate transactions took place in Lowell last week: January 19, 2015 – Monday Martin Luther King Day – registry closed January 20, 2015 – Tuesday 200 Market St Unit 4002 for $95,246. Prior sale in 2005 for $115,000 January 21, 2015 – Wednesday 45 Stevens St Unit…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. To enjoy the performance at the movies and in theater, audience members often have to suspend their connection with reality. So, too, with another form of entertainment, professional football. Is it really possible that Bill Bellichik and Tom Brady,…
Read More »Poet Ezra Pound said, “Poetry [or literature] is news that stays news,” and the doctor-poet of Paterson, New Jersey, William Carlos Williams, believed that the news worthwhile receiving can be found in poems. Following is an excerpt from a long poem that includes Williams’s well known lines about poetry and…
Read More »Kate Hanson Foster graduated from UMass Lowell and gained her MFA in Poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in Groton, Mass. Her poems have appeared in California Quarterly, Comstock Review, and other literary magazines. Her first book “Mid Drift,” published by Loom Press in 2011, was selected that…
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