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Obama Budget D.O.A by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. How many trees died so the Government Printing Office could distribute all those never-to-be-implemented budget proposals put out earlier this week by the Obama Administration. Let’s face it. The Obama budget is basically dead on…
Read More »The Beauty of Falling Water
The Merrimack River’s Pawtucket Falls at Pawtucket Dam in Lowell (copied from a post on Facebook by Alan S. Manoian)
Read More »Malachy, Best in Show
His official name is Ch Palacegarden Malachy, but you can simply call him Malachy… or maybe even, best in show. Malachy took the 2012 Best In Show Prize at this years Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Below is a picture of the winning Pekingese showing off his newly won ribbons…
Read More »Bob Tillman, by Request, and Juan Marichal
That Dickens in America – He Liked Lowell
This is a cross-post from the Lowell Historical Society blog. The Society is participating in the local celebration of Dickens’ 200th birthday and his 1842 visit tio Lowell in partnership with UMass Lowell, the Lowell National Historical Park and others. There will be a panel discussion on Dickens at the…
Read More »My Valentine – A Massachusetts Moment
The Business of Valentine Cards: From Howland to Hallmark by Marie MassMoments tells us this morning that in 1849 – the first American-made Valentine cards were created and sold in Worcester, Massachusetts by Mt. Holyoke graduate Esther Howland. Modeled on the English-style Valentine, her fancy designs, embossed, cut and colored…
Read More »Moneyball
Over the weekend I finally saw the movie Moneyball which was based on the Michael Lewis book by the same title that is one of my all-time favorites, not because it’s a literary classic – although Lewis is an excellent and funny writer – but because it documents how statistics…
Read More »Baseball Is in the Wind
Ladd & Whitney Monument detail
The city of Lowell seal on the Ladd and Whitney Monument. Photo by Tony Sampas.
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