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On August 31, 1837, an important man from the Greater Merrimack River Valley spoke to members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass. His address that day is considered by some to be ‘America’s Declaration of Intellectual Independence.’ Here is Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ‘The American…
Read More »No, that’s not really him, rather the picture above is a full size cut-out of President Barack Obama outside the Democratic Headquarters in Kennebunkport Maine. Let me tell you, Kennebunkport may be the summer residence of the the Bushs’ but the Democratic Town Committee in KBP is gearing up big…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out too. As Syria goes deeper into civil war (and may draw in Turkey) and Egypt’s first civilian president, Mohamed Morsi, calls for the release of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing plotter, “blind sheik” Omar Abdel-Rahman,…
Read More »“Blue Carnival” by Richard Marion (c) 2012 For carnival, fireworks, and festival season, an image from downtown Lowell in the 1980s. See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net Prints of all artwork are available from the artist.
Read More »The past two summers, teams of archaeologists from Queen’s University in Belfast have traveled to Lowell to conduct a dig on the grounds of St. Patrick’s Church in partnership with UMass Lowell and St. Patrick’s Parish. The the excavations and related research have yielded much of interest about Lowell’s earliest…
Read More »Yesterday (June 30, 2012) was Edith Nourse Rogers Day in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts per order of Governor Deval Patrick. In honor of the former Congresswoman from the Fifth Congressional District, a small ceremony was held at the Allen House of UMass Lowell where a proclamation from the governor was…
Read More »[youtube]5ulYGXQVuL4[/youtube] Steve O’Connor sent along a link to the above YouTube video of 12 year old Quinn Sullivan of New Bedford, Massachusetts performing at a club in Albany where he was the opening act for Blues legend Buddy Guy. I suspect we will hear from this young man again.
Read More »If I had a “bucket list,” seeing John Sebastian perform live once more would have been on it until last night. Check. The highly entertaining Sebastian has been a favorite of mine since the Lovin’ Spoonful broke into the record charts in the mid-1960s with songs like “Do You…
Read More »Canada – our neighbor to the North – is the largest country in North America and the second largest country in the world. It is located north of the United States and southeast of Alaska. It has ten provinces and three territories. Over 33 million people live in Canada. Most…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Thanks to CNN and Fox, Thursday’s SCOTUS announcement was an emotional roller coaster. Like the Dewey-beats-Truman headlines, they both were so eager to be first that they were wrong. Shame on them. This time, print media at least…
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