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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…
Read More »The recent Globe article ~ “How a Massachusetts man invented the global ice market” reminded me that Lowell with its location on the Merrimack River had it’s own ice harvesting business with talented ice cutters and ice harvesters. The name of local ice king Daniel Gage and visits from the…
Read More »So long to La Boniche, a Lowell institution since 1988. Thanks for offering Lowellians and visitors a delightful dining experience for such a long time.
Read More »A new ping today as someone referenced this post from the archive has prompted me to re-post this commentary on “candles in the window at Christmas time” ~ an Irish tradition as well as a few memories. BTW ~ I was amused to be noted as a “Bostonian with an…
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