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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. photo Jim Barron Sports is a hot topic in Cuba. In Havana’s central park, there’s a “hot corner,” not unlike Hyde Park in London. But, instead of debating politics, the participants are intensely arguing about baseball, and the minutiae of each…
Read More »Representative Rady Mom addresses the council on a bill he has filed to make firing a gun into a house a felony. Asks the council to formally vote to support this bill so it will aid its becoming law. Police Chief Taylor says this legislation is needed to fill a…
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We have set the dates for this spring’s Lowell Cemetery tours. Here are the dates and times: Friday, May 15, 2015 at 1 pm Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 10 am Friday, May 22, 2015 at 1 pm Saturday, May 23, 2015 at 10 am All of these tours will…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The end of the U.S. embargo of Cuba is long overdue. It serves no purpose today. The goal was to bring Fidel Castro to his knees, but it hasn’t worked for 55 years. Now the torch has been passed to…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. As Sun Country’s flight 8830 touched down in Havana the morning of February 25th, the flight attendant announced, “Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome to Havana.” A cheer went up, people clapped, and some eyes misted over. It was an…
Read More »One of our far-flung correspondents, Tom Sexton, checked in with a new poem from the apple yards of Maine, where he is counting icicles and writing a memoir about growing up in Lowell. In the great tradition of apple poems by Lawrence High School-grad Robert Frost and others, Tom gives…
Read More »Thanks to “Merrimack Valley Magazine” for the kind words about “Mill Power” in a review in the new March/April 2015 issue. Here’s the link for the “Mill Power” review And here’s the link for the MVM site and several articles and features that are online. Please look for and buy…
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Jack’s Corner at the Pollard Library Yesterday afternoon at 3pm about 40 people gathered on the first floor of the Pollard Memorial Library to dedicate “Jack’s Corner.” David Amram, who first met Kerouac in 1956 in New York City, said that Kerouac knew more about more things than anyone Amram…
Read More »If a speech can make a difference, this is one. President Obama did well in Selma, Alabama, yesterday. “Our march is not over.” “Moral imagination.” “The single most powerful word in our democracy is ‘we’.” “What has not changed is the imperative of citizenship.” “Give voice to the voiceless.” This…
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