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An Incident Today Sparked a Trip Down Our Political Memory Lane
Earlier today on Facebook I linked to a story about the conservative group “Club for Growth” sending out a “NO Vote Alert” urging all Republican members of the U.S. House to vote “NO” on the bill to expand the National Flood Insurance Program’s borrowing authority by $9.7 billion. This is…
Read More »’23 October’ by Paul Hudon
The following poem is from Paul Hudon’s big poem-a-day book written in 2005-2006, “All in Good Time” (Loom Press, 2011). At various times, Paul has been a professor of history at Merrimack College, curator of pre-industrial artifacts at the Merrimack Valley Textile Museum (now the American Textile History Museum in Lowell),…
Read More »Bucky Lew and the Lews of Lowell
Mass Moments reminds us that on this day January 4, 1884, Harry Haskell Lew – also known as Bucky Lew – was born in Lowell in 1884 to an African-American family with a long and illustrious history in Massachusetts. His great-great-grandfather, Barzillai Lew – a free black man who purchased the…
Read More »Jack Neary returns to the Lowell blogosphere
Playwright Jack Neary launched his blog “Shards” last January with the best of intentions. As he explains in a blog post written days ago, his plan to write a blog post daily was overcome by events. Jack has permitted us to cross-post entries from his blog, so I’ve done that…
Read More »“Meanderings: Birthdays and Fires” by Jim Peters
Congratulations to frequent contributor Jim Peters on his upcoming birthday and condolences on the fire that has put him and his family out of their home for the time being. Jim sent along the following observations on these and other events: Usually these two topics do not mix, but my…
Read More »Massachusetts State House Pictures
Last night I had the honor of attending the ceremony at the State House in Boston in which Secretary of State. William Galvin swore into office Middlesex North Register of Deeds, Richard Howe, Jr. I have been in the State House numerous times before yet its beautiful design and architecture…
Read More »Fiscal cliff deal a puny effort by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out too. That clanking sound you hear is that of the proverbial can getting kicked down the road. That can is the much-needed solution to the federal debt. This week’s “solution” was not a solution at all. At…
Read More »Scott Brown, Ed Markey and talk radio
Today’s Globe reports that soon-to-be former Senator Scott Brown took to the talk radio airways yesterday to swipe at Congressman Ed Markey, a likely opponent in the upcoming special election to fill the US Senate seat now held by John Kerry. Brown asked whether Markey, who has been a Congressman…
Read More »Register of Deeds oath of office ceremony
The Commonwealth’s Registers of Deeds, both those newly elected and those re-elected in this past November’s state election, gathered earlier this evening at the State House in Boston for an Administration of the Oath of Office Ceremony conducted by Secretary of State William Galvin (above). The ceremony was immediately followed…
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