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The Milk Snatcher . In 1975 I remember marching, as a scuffy undergraduate, to Parliament calling for Margaret Thatcher’s resignation as Minister for Education. I carried a banner which read “Thatcher The Milk Snatcher”—one of Thatcher’s first forays into re-aligning the British state was to propose ending the distribution of…
Read More »Squint and you can probably read the names of the men on this panel from the Lowell National Historical Park, the City Administration, the US Senate, the Lowell Historic Board and (I’m guessing) the Lowell Plan. Circa – early-1980s. (from Browsers Camera, Lowell Sun website) Amid the many blogs that…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Political correctness run amuck: President Obama felt compelled to apologize to California Attorney General Kamela Harris for calling her “by far the best looking attorney general in the country.” Frankly, the only person who might legitimately feel slighted…
Read More »Ryan Gallagher, Chuck Levenstein, and I had a good afternoon in Gloucester reading poems for about 20 people at the Gloucester Writers Center, which is a small house on East Main Street that was once the home of poet Vincent Ferrini, longtime poet laureate of Gloucester and a disciple of…
Read More »Billerica and Tewksbury held their annual town elections yesterday. Incumbents carried the day in Tewksbury while a newcomer broke into the ranks in Billerica. In a three-way race for Selectman – challenger George Simolaris topped the ballot taking over 41 percent of the votes – 4,639, followed by incumbent Mike Rosa…
Read More »Last October the Angkor Dance Troupe celebrated its 25th anniversary with the premiere performance of “Apsara Dancing Stones” at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium. I was in the crowd that night and came away very impressed by the artistry, grace and tradition of Cambodian dance (the blog post I wrote about…
Read More »Book signing on April 6 by DickH On Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 11:00 A.M., the Lowell Historical Society will host a book signing event for Legendary Locals of Lowell, the new book I co-wrote with Mike Rosenberg. The event will take place at Lowell Telecommunications Corporation which is at…
Read More »Grassroot video tour of the exterior of the Middlesex Community College building in Lowell. Posted on Youtube by Xenosproduction.
Read More »The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Red Sox opening day victory……what could be better? I posted the team’s first-place standing on my refrigerator, thinking it might all be downhill from there. But I felt great. Never mind that the dreaded Yankees are broken old…
Read More »Last evening was the Lowell premiere of “Lost Child: Sayon’s Journey”, a documentary about Sayon Soeun who at a very young age was forced to serve as a Khmer Rouge soldier. The film follows Sayon, who has lived in Lowell since the early 1990s, as he returns to Cambodia in…
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