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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I’m not Gene Siskel, Roger Ebert, or Joyce Kulhawik, and I don’t pretend to be. But this is a heavy season for movie going, with the industry trying to distribute its best in anticipation of the next round of…
Read More »On this final weekend of 2014, here are my top ten Lowell political events of the year (in no particular order). They are followed by some other noteworthy public occurrences during this past year. So here they are: Top Ten Lowell Political Events of 2014 At its inaugural ceremony in…
Read More »The following real estate sales occurred in Lowell last week: December 22, 2014 – Monday 164-166 Crawford St for $224,500. Prior sale in 1956 72 D St for $227,000. Prior sale in 2002 for $194,900 12-14 & 16-18 Gardner Ave for $575,000. 12-14 Gardner in 2000 for $155,000; 16-18 Gardner…
Read More »Frequent contributor Jim Peters offers the following about St Patrick’s Church in Lowell: I believed that this would be an easy assignment. I mean, a great deal has been written on St. Patrick’s Church, right? So it cannot be that difficult to catalogue it in a chronologically correct way. Was…
Read More »For those who celebrate the spiritual event and holyday that for us is Christmas – we do so without restraint on our person, our beliefs, our rituals… the secular and civic revelries of Christmas time ~ the music, gift giving, parties, food, song, symbols and salutes thrive as well…. here…
Read More »I wrote this poem on the West Coast, when I was in graduate school at the University of California in 1983-84. I had moved across country and wanted to write something about the coincidence of living in Dana Point, which had a Massachusetts and even a Lowell connection. The composition…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I confess to being seduced by Governor Deval Patrick. Not literally, of course, but almost always being won over by his charm. It happened the very first time I met him at a house party, nine years ago, when…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barrons own blog. I have never been a fan of Al Sharpton. I look at him and see Tawana Brawley, the late eighties phoney rape case that Sharpton embraced in such an inflammatory way. I have always seen him as someone who has…
Read More »Back in December 2012, 56 people from Lowell came together to recite “A Visit from St. Nicholas” by Clement Clark Moore. HERE is the link to the video.
Read More »Just in time for those with a few days off around Christmas and New Year, Nancy Pitkin writes about her recent visit to the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge: On 22nd December 2014, we visited the newly renovated Harvard Art Museum buildings on Quincy Street. The Fogg and the Arther…
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