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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I haven’t written much about Citizens United and the lethal impact that infamous Supreme Court decision has had on our already tainted political process. Nothing I could have written would have driven the point home as colorfully as this…
Read More »On Saturday, April 18, 1998, about 100 people attended a “town meeting” called “What Does the Internet Mean for Lowell?” at the O’Leary Library of UMass Lowell. The gathering was sponsored by the UMass Lowell Psychology Dept. Community Outreach Laboratory, Flowering City Steering Committee, New England Foundation for the Arts…
Read More »NYTimes opinion-writer David Brooks speaks out on the Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl issue. Read what he has to say here, and get the NYT if you want more of this kind of writing. David Brooks (web photo courtesy of NYTimes)
Read More »Today is the inaugural edition of the Boston Globe’s new weekly political section called “Capital” which the Globe describes as “the week in politics and the issues.” I’m impressed. The twelve page section is packed with substance including news stories, opinion pieces, graphs and photographs. While there are a few…
Read More »Today is the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the great amphibious and airborne assault that returned the Allies to France in 1944 and commenced the final phase of the war in Europe. Below is a blog post I did two years ago which includes photos from a 2004 family visit to…
Read More »The Kennedy brothers ~ U. S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (later U.S. Senator from NY), left, U. S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts , center and President John F. Kennedy at the White House in Washington in this in this 1962 (AP photo) Sometimes it seems a lifetime…
Read More »Thanks to Tony Sampas for the following photos and text and congratulations to Mehmed Ali: Lowell’s own Mehmed Ali receives Historic New England’s 2014 Prize for Collecting Works on Paper June 2, 2014, Haverhill, MA. With many Lowell friends in attendance the President of Historic New England Carl R. Nold…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Driving past Newtown, Connecticut this past weekend was a reminder of how virtually nothing has been accomplished since the slaughter of little children at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut a year and a half ago. The Stop Handgun…
Read More »Tony Sampas shared the following picture and narrative about an upcoming program called “Coming Out in Lowell – from the Early Community to Marriage Equality” which will be held at Lowell’s Pollard Memorial Library this Saturday, June 7, 2014 from 11:00 am to 1:00 PM. The event will feature a…
Read More »The recent death of Beverly Bennett – a businesswoman and charitable activist – who lived her entire life on Andover Street in North Tewksbury across from the First Baptist Church – made me think about the people who lived in our area of North Tewksbury over the years, my old neighbors, …
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