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Happy Birthday, Mr. Poe By David Daniel On this day, sir, in 1809, you were born in Boston, a child of actors. Before long, your father split to chase his own dreams and your mother continued acting to support herself and you—performing the roles of young women—Ophelia, Juliet … young…
Read More »Living Madly: Dearest Winter By Emilie-Noelle Provost My husband, Rob, and I collect landscape paintings. We have several hanging in our house. Some of our paintings were created by local artists, but we also own many by national and even international painters. I’m not an art expert. I most often…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. North Woods by Daniel Mason is an exquisite book about a house in a forest in western Massachusetts, and all the people who have lived in that house going back to colonial times, starting with a pair of lovers…
Read More »“So many beginnings…” (PIP #15) By Louise Peloquin I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. – Louisa May Alcott ********* 2024 has begun and is well under way. Will the new year’s resolutions, expectations, aspirations, ambitions, contentions, dissensions, cooperations, evolutions and all of the other…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Former Ambassador Nikki Haley and Governor Ron DeSantis were like two playground kids pretending to be scorpions in a bottle in Wednesday night’s debate, jabbing at each other, oblivious to the big foot about to crush them…
Read More »January 14, 2024 The Lowell City Council met Tuesday night in the aftermath of Sunday’s big 17-inch snowstorm. Predictably, Councilors talked a lot about snow removal. That’s a topic that everyone has an opinion on; Councilors especially so. City Manager Tom Golden explained that it’s been a while since the…
Read More »Follow Every Rainbow – the Life of the Real Maria and the Von Trapp Family Singers By Malcolm Sharps As an article on this blog of 6 December 2023 records, the Von Trapp Family Singers paid a visit to Lowell on a very unfortunate day, 7 December, 1941, the date…
Read More »Here is another in my series of excerpts from the 1926 Lowell City Directory. This post lists the job titles of Lowell city officials and the names of those who fill them: Mayor – John J. Donovan (salary $5,000) Councilors-At-Large (salary $500 each; two-year terms) James J. Gallagher (president) John…
Read More »Bonne et heureuse année!/Good and happy new year! (PIP #14) By Louise Peloquin How would Louis-A. Biron have welcomed in this new year? At the dawn of 1936, here is an excerpt of his address to L’Etoile readers. (1) ********* Just as the torrent rushes towards the abyss, time…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Few windows into today’s higher education leadership were as shocking as the testimony of three distinguished university presidents (from Harvard, Penn and MIT) before the star chamber hearing of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce…
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