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Lifelong Friends from Downriver Visit Lowell: An Appreciation St. Joseph’s Day, 2022 (Part II) By Mike McCormick “In my opinion Lowell, Massachusetts is now the most interesting city in the United States Of America.” – Jack Kerouac, 1962. I’m thrilled to have any opportunity to visit Kerouac’s old neighborhoods and haunts.…
Read More »Lifelong Friends from Downriver Visit Lowell: An Appreciation St. Joseph’s Day, 2022 (Part I) By Mike McCormick “In my opinion Lowell, Massachusetts is now the most interesting city in the United States Of America.” – Jack Kerouac, 1962. As my lifelong friend Jack and I start down the walkway outside…
Read More »In this short video from France, Kate Rex explores the French roots of Jack Kerouac’s mother.
Read More »The Lowell Justice Center has a stairwell on either side of the L-shaped building. Both go from ground level to the 7th floor. Both are enclosed in glass and provide some excellent views. I was recently in the stairwell on the Dutton Street side of the building and took these…
Read More »Sound bites from the front row Election night – Paris – 24 April 2022 By Louise Peloquin Editor’s Note: Our regular contributor Louise Peloquin (Boarding School Blues) was in Paris this weekend as the French went to the polls for their Presidential election. Louise shared her observations with us. Forgoing…
Read More »Dry Cleaning Tales By David Daniel One: Elizabethan Dry Cleaning My old man never went past the tenth grade, but he once gave me a piece of advice that, for all my university education, I’ve been kicking over in my mind ever since. He owned a dry cleaner, the…
Read More »The official launch of The Lowell Review 2022 will be held on Saturday, May 7, 2022, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at lala books, 189 Market Street, in downtown Lowell. The Lowell Review includes essays, poems, stories, criticism, opinion, and visual art by writers from the Merrimack Valley and…
Read More »We’ll be posting all kinds of material related to the Jack Kerouac Centennial through the year. Here are 15 haiku by Roger West, a poet and musician in France who has been to Lowell a few times for the annual Kerouac festival. With friends, he celebrated the 100th birthday of…
Read More »Living Madly – Black Tower By Emilie-Noelle Provost Old friends and old wine are best. —German Proverb I’ve been fortunate to have many good friends throughout my life. Memories of wild parties, road trips, quiet conversations, long hikes in the woods, and afternoon barbecues that lasted into the night help…
Read More »Boarding School Blues: Chapter 34 By Louise Peloquin Chapter 34: “Run along now” Noël vacation was only two weeks away. Blanche and her friends were plowing through the curriculum from Latin declensions and new vocabulary to the American Revolution timeline including the March 5, 1770 Boston Massacre, the December 16,…
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