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I didn’t expect the snow to begin until later this morning but at least an inch had fallen by 5 am. I’ll either update this post or add others as the storm progresses. Please send you pictures and observations to me at DickHoweJr@gmail.com or leave them here as comments.
Read More »Many decades ago there was a local radio announcer whose name I now forget who boom out across the airwaves “No school, all schools in Lowell” on days when the weather cancelled school for the day. (Maybe someone can help me with that name). Modern technology has given us Jay…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. For much of the year, my husband and I debate whether a movie is worth seeing on a big screen or relegated to Netflix. But our winter holiday tradition is to binge on in-theater movies during the last 10…
Read More »It’s New Year’s Day and the stores are already displaying candy for Valentine’s Day
Read More »Chinese Pie (Web photo courtesy of citronlimette.com)
Read More »Chinese Pie or Pâté chinois is a French-Canadian version of shepherd’s pie that at one time was so popular that it would appear on school lunch menus in French Catholic parishes and even some public schools in Greater Lowell. The origin is not certain and may be related to Canadian…
Read More »Chinese food on New Year’s Eve. For several years I’ve been intrigued by this practice. It’s certainly common around here but is it just a Lowell thing? Or is it a New England tradition? What are the origins of this tradition? Why do people do it? Where do you get…
Read More »Yesterday I drove to Logan Airport for the first time since last Friday’s closure of the Callahan Tunnel which will remain closed until the end of March. From Lowell I took Route 3 south to Route 95/128 south to the Mass Turnpike east. I stayed on the Turnpike, passing through…
Read More »As this story from the Daily National Intelligencer (Washington D.C.) on New Year’s Day 1847 reminds us, be careful out there tonight and tomorrow: FATAL ACCIDENT AT LOWELL. — The Lowell Courier of Saturday states that a young man named HALL fell from the sixth story of the large Middlesex…
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