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Thanks to Amy Black on Facebook for this historic image that I hope she doesn’t mind us sharing here—this is inside the Patrick J. Mogan Cultural Center, which has a front lawn in the form of Boarding House Park where Amy and Chris performed masterfully last night to open the 2011 Lowell…
Read More »Milky Way . Wind gusts. Lamps flicker. If there’s a power cut, we’ll sit and talk about the storm, sure the villa will hold up, then rise in the light of our Sun. The other stars can’t help us, their faint points beautiful but useless except for how they hold…
Read More »E Street Band in London, 2009, \”Jungleland\”
Read More »In today’s Globe writer Eric Moskowitz tells us about his out and about coverage of fan reaction to the Bruins Stanley Cup victory. His wanderings around Canal Street led him to an exhibit at the West End Museum, a gallery on Staniford Street. His discovery of the origin of Canal…
Read More »The Global War Veterans of Greater Lowell held a “flag retirement” ceremony today at the Veteran’s Square section of the Westlawn Cemetery. Flags that had become unserviceable due to ordinary wear and tear were collected and then “retired.” The proper method to do that is to burn the flags in…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. If there’s one thing to be learned from the sad demise of former House Speaker Sal DiMasi, it’s the need for transparency, doing the people’s business in the people view. If there’s one place it should be applied…
Read More »Yesterday was the anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. The battle is noteworthy because it was the first major engagement between the colonial militia and the British troops. Eight weeks earlier, an intense fight had occurred at Lexington, Concord and on the route back to Boston, but while those…
Read More »According to a story in today’s Eagle Tribune, Merrimack Valley best-selling author Andre Dubus III told a Haverhill Chamber of Commerce audience that he has signed a contract to have his memoir “Townie” about growing up in Haverhill made into a movie. Two unnamed actor-producer brothers have paid for a…
Read More »Here we go again. We will hear more and more about the New Hampshire Primary of 2012 as the weeks are peeled off the calendar and the new year approaches. I don’t get it. Why should New Hampshire be even one day before Massachusetts in the schedule of caucuses and primaries? I…
Read More »The Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene online site has an excellent new review of Paul Hudon’s book-length poem “All in Good Time” (Loom Press) by Irene Koronas of Wilderness House Literary Review. Paul Hudon’s writing, his poems, are open, contemporary; they inspire, invite the reader in. His language resolves…
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