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A Franco Poet Graces National Poetry Month By Louise Peloquin In 1996, the Academy of American Poets declared April as National Poetry Month. For the 30th anniversary, we remember a great Franco-American poet of the 20th century – Normand C. Dubé. Maine native Normand Camille Dubé (1932-1988) was a proud…
Read More »On Tuesday, March 31, 2026, the Lowell City Council authorized the city manager to execute a land disposition agreement that would transfer a large parcel in the Hamilton Canal Innovation District (HCID) to Wexford Development to construct a 75,000 square foot research and development facility that will be used by…
Read More »Poet Maggie Dietz of UMass Lowell In her weekly Substack newsletter, ‘New England Literary News,’ writer Nina MacLaughlin shares her view of a new collection of poems by Maggie Dietz of the UMass Lowell Dept. of English. Readers can subscribe to New England Literary News here. Here is the brief…
Read More »Book Review: Tubby: Raymond O. Barton and the US Army Book by Stephen A. Bourque Review by Richard Howe This is a masterful biography of the U.S. Army general who, among other things, commanded the 4th Infantry Division from D-Day through the Battle of the Bulge. Anyone interested in the…
Read More »On Being a Guest, and Dumpling Evenings by Leo Racicot I was in her company only once, twice if you count the time she came over to Ed’s. That visit was brief; we talked about The Makioka Sisters, the occasional merits of Bizet over Mozart, the high price of flowers…
Read More »Obituary: Shigeaki Mori – “Shigeaki Mori, Survivor Of Hiroshima Who Led A Search, Is Dead at 88,” New York Times, March 23, 2026. On the morning of August 6, 1945, Shigeaki Mori was an 8-year-old student on his way to school when the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima. He survived…
Read More »An Easter Editorial – (PIP #102) By Louise Peloquin L’Etoile published the editorial below one hundred years ago. The 25th “peek into the past” presents another such piece and casts a light on the newspaper’s publication choices by pointing out the following. “For the French-Canadian community, the church was…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Newton Center Green in Massachusetts was packed on Saturday, despite temperature in the 30’s and a biting wind. A 10-piece local brass band energized the crowd with a rousing Saints Go Marching In. There were young and old, black and…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner won the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction in 1995 and was reissued with an afterword in 2023. This is a BIG book not necessarily in length…
Read More »Tuesday’s Lowell City Council was a long one, mostly because the council had cancelled its prior meeting which fell on St. Patrick’s Day. The public portion of this meeting took 3 hours, 45 minutes. For councilors, it was even longer since they went into executive session after that. **** The…
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