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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Watching dysfunctional Washington is profoundly, naggingly depressing, leaving one having to work hard to count our blessings, of which there are assuredly many. Typically, those blessings are related to home, hearth and health, family and friends. Against the…
Read More »It’s Top Ten time. I’ll post my list of top Lowell events of the past year tomorrow morning, but I’ve been rolling out similar posts for past years. My list for 2007 is HERE and for 2009 is HERE. For some reason, my Top Ten lists seem to be every…
Read More »Dust of Snow By Robert Frost (1874–1963) . The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. . According to the Robert Frost encyclopedia online, this poem was first…
Read More »Joe Donahue (Joseph Donahue of Duke University in North Carolina and the literary constellation Lowelliana) has a poem in the Dec. 24 issue of The Nation magazine, one of the few remaining nationally distributed publications that regularly make room for poets–and thus a fantastic location for widespread viewing of literary compositions.…
Read More »I don’t agree with the opinions in the regular essays by Ross Douthat in the NYTimes, but he makes a useful point in his new column when he encourages citizens to at least try to read or listen to political and policy views that come from way over on the other…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. Long-term Congressman Ed Markey’s announcement that he’ll run in a special election to fill Senator John Kerry’s Senate seat (once Kerry is confirmed for Secretary of State) starts the new campaign season (did the old…
Read More »Back in 1986, the “Tax Simplification Act” drastically changed the way real estate transactions, among many other things, were taxed. That year’s December 31 was one of the busiest days in the history of the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds (so I am told since I was not yet there…
Read More »Lowell City Hall. Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Is New Year’s Eve the biggest Chinese-take-out night of the year in Lowell? What is your favorite Chinese take-out place? “Take-Out” by Richard Marion (c) 2012 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »I couldn’t find my Lowell list from 2008 so we’ll just skip from yesterday’s 2007 Top Ten to the following inventory from 2009: (Originally posted on December 29, 2009) It was a busy year in Lowell politics, so I won’t limit myself to just ten items. Here is my list…
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