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‘San Clemente’
With the 40th anniversary of President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation approaching on August 9, I went to the vault to retrieve this “current events” poem written a long time ago. The complexity of the Watergate scandal unfolding month to month in 1973 and ’74 grabbed people’s attention like one of…
Read More »Lowell Week in Review: August 3, 2014
Market Basket With no council meeting this week, the Market Basket saga continues to be the biggest news around. As Kendall Wallace wrote in his Saturday Chat yesterday (no link yet), there should be at least one fascinating book to come out of this. The DeMoulas family feud has been…
Read More »Lowell Real Estate: week of July 28, 2014
July 28, 2014 – Monday 39 Harland Ave for $325,000. Prior sale in 2009 for $330,000 133 Havilah St for $520,000. Prior sale in 1972 July 29, 2014 – Tuesday 1 Canal Place Unit 501 for $205,000. Prior sale in 2009 for $197,000 18 Gilmore St Unit 18A for $120,000.…
Read More »The Olympia as Oracle Site: Demoulas Affair
Shirley Leung of the Boston Globe went to The Olympia for lunch to learn what the locals are saying about the Demoulas-Market Basket Affair. Read her column here, and get the Globe if you want more of this kind of newspapering.
Read More »Lowell Folk Festival follow-up
Congratulations and thanks to all involved for another successful Lowell Folk Festival. I attended on both Saturday and Sunday with vastly different experiences but that was because of the heavy rain that fell midday on Sunday. Hopefully the financial impact was less severe than the weather. I am sorry I…
Read More »More on Harry de Metropolis
In the rh.com archives, I found another post I had written about Harry de Metropolis in 2008. Time flies. Some of the information repeats what I have in my new post, but there is enough different material that I thought I’d post it as a companion piece to give a…
Read More »Harry de Metropolis of Lowell, Soldier & Poet
One of the lost poets of Lowell is Harry de Metropolis, born Sept. 22, 1913, in Lowell. He graduated from Lowell High School (1931) and West Point (1939), and served in the European and Pacific theaters in World War II. In 1952, the William-Frederick Press of N.Y. published a collection…
Read More »Notes from shopping today…
My staples are still holding, so looking for fresh food today, I started locally at the East Street Farm Stand (Farmer Dave’s) in Tewksbury… my cache was a few small peaches, tomatoes, butter beans, a pepper, 6 ears of corn… the stand was busy and had just opened for the…
Read More »Folk Festival Photos
Thanks to Tony Sampas for the following photos:
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