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It seems that everyone is still recovering from the election. Usually at this time of the year all attention shifts to the selection of the next mayor. This year, as I discussed last week, Rodney Elliott immediately lined up commitments from a majority of councilors so he should be the…
Read More »November 11, 2013 – Monday Veteran’s Day November 12, 2013 – Tuesday 883 Westford St for $49,000. Prior sale in 1967 36 Fulton St for $77,000. Prior sale in 1997 for $43,500 45 Atlantic St for $259,900. Prior sale in 1952 November 13, 2013 – Wednesday 53 S. Loring St…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The talking heads are calling this year’s snafus in the roll-out of the Affordable Care Act Obama’s Katrina, likening it to the FEMA debacle in responding to the deadly 2005 hurricane that wasted Louisiana. I think the handling of…
Read More »Following are excerpts from a seqence of poems titled “Purple Ritual” in Joseph Donahue’s first book of poems, Before Creation (1989). The sequence in much longer and more complex than these passages suggest, but today it seemed important to me to share part of this composition for the record. At…
Read More »“Salmon Sky Above the Mills” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »[youtube]eih67rlGNhU[/youtube] Someone once joked to me that walking through downtown Lowell was like visiting a casting call for Les Miserables. That was twenty years ago. I’m not sure how much has changed. It’s really in the nature of cities to attract all kinds of people, from the very well off…
Read More »This newly available photo of President John F. Kennedy just minutes – maybe seconds – before he was killed in Dallas, shows a smiling, welcoming crowd. See the series of eight photos here at Time Magazine/LightBox taken by H. Warner King, an amateur photographer. Read his daughter’s story of why they only recently…
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