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This is another of our Lowell Stories series, which we hope to make a regular feature on this website. If you have a story to share, get in touch and we’ll help preserve it in print. We’ll even write it for you if that would help. Richard Howe Lowell Stories – Keeping…
Read More »How much? – (PIP #88) By Louise Peloquin How much would a Thanksgiving dinner have cost the American manufacturing industry worker earning a weekly average of $24.41 in November 1926? (1) “Peeks into the past” #7 and #49 have also provided examples of early 20th-century (1917) grocery prices as well as…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History – and How it Shattered a Nation by Andrew Ross Sorkin is a spellbinding deep dive into the irrational exuberance of the Roaring Twenties, the amassing of wealth and wild stock…
Read More »The Lowell City Council met on Tuesday, November 18, 2025. The agenda was relatively light considering there had been no meeting the previous week due to Veterans Day and the meeting before that had only lasted seven minutes because it coincided with the city election. On Tuesday, the Council did…
Read More »Poet Tom Sexton (photo by Kevin Harkins) Thanks to Michael Burwell of Alaska for sending us two recent commentaries on the late Tom Sexton and his final book of poems, “Dark Cloud in Isabel Pass” (Loom Press, 2025). Michael’s review-essay appears in “Cirque” literary magazine of Alaska and Nancy Lord’s…
Read More »Living Madly: Quiet Blessings By Emilie-Noelle Provost Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. There’s always been something special about waking up on Thanksgiving morning: the low-slung angle of the sun as it lights up the bare trees, multicolored leaves scattered along the ground, the quiet street, the delicious smell of sage…
Read More »Chath pierSath is the author of several books including the poetry collections “Echoes Lost to the Wind,” “On Earth Beneath Sky: Poems & Sketches,” and “This Body Mystery: Paintings and Poems.” His paintings have been exhibited in Europe, Asia, and North America. He holds a graduate degree in community social…
Read More »“Fait divers” – (PIP #87) By Louise Peloquin Daily news coverage has always included briefs about accidents, crimes and unexpected events. These human interest stories fed reader curiosity much like social media does today. Here are examples of L’Etoile’s “faits divers.” L’Etoile – December 24, 1924 TWO LOWELL WOMEN ARRESTED YESTERDAY IN…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Remembering & forgetting: a memoir and other pieces of my life by Miriam Spiegel Raskin is a short but impactful book by a woman who, in 1939, at the age of eight, fled Germany with her parents, Julius and Fannie Spiegel,…
Read More »There was no city council meeting this week due to Veterans Day falling on Tuesday, so I’ll do another dive into Lowell history. In two recent city council meetings, City Manager Tom Golden has talked optimistically about redevelopment plans for the former Lowell District Court and its neighbor, the UMass…
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