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For those who haven’t heard from other channels UMass Lowell’s Portuguese Center event with poet Frank X. Gaspar that was scheduled for Thursday evening, April 11, has been cancelled due to a change in the author’s schedule! Please stay tuned for details our event with anthropology scholar Cristiana Bastos on…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Newark’s charismatic mayor, Cory Booker, took the stage Sunday at Salem State University’s Speaker Series. A man on the move politically (he’s planning a run for retiring Frank Lautenberg’s U.S. Senate seat in 2014), he’s on the move…
Read More »Tonight I’ll be at the Moses Greeley Parker Library in Dracut at 6:30 pm to talk about Legendary Locals of Lowell. Everyone is invited.
Read More »I’m glad I went down to the river last night. The preacher was in town, and the congregation was called to assemble. He made his fourth tour through the city of smokestacks and steeples, the small city with the world on its streets. The people arrived with eager, happy looks…
Read More »UMass Lowell continued to cement its reputation as a center of political activity in Massachusetts last evening with a debate between US Senate candidates Steve Lynch and Ed Markey at Durgin Hall (the three Republican candidates had been invited but chose not to participate). While the debate was not broadcast…
Read More »Frequent contributor Jim Peters shared some of this thoughts from the week past: The question of the week, for me personally that is, was how do you keep up with Dick Howe, Jr. I have been a friend of the Howe family since Dick was just a kid, but somehow,…
Read More »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…
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