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Jack is Back! The entry below is being cross posted from local playwright Jack Neary’s own blog called Shards. I’ve been wondering what it would take to get me back on this blog. For some reason, I haven’t been able to get my brain around anything worth typing here. Not…
Read More »Congratulations to the Boston Bruins who defeated the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 in a game seven victory. It’s been an incredible decade for professional sports teams in Boston. Consider: New England Patriots won the Super Bowl in 2001, 2003 and 2004. Boston Red Sox won the World Series in 2004 and…
Read More »Along Paige Street in Lowell, by Tony Sampas
Read More »Two weekends ago, the musical “Factory Girls” played at Lowell High School to rave reviews, but I missed those performances and so this past weekend I saw the show at the Boston Conservatory. It was outstanding, both from entertainment and historical perspectives. Set in 19th Century Lowell and directed by…
Read More »The Sunday, June 12, Boston Globe included a special magazine section “Diversity Boston” that prominently featured an article about growing voter activism among Cambodian-Americans in Lowell. Sovanna Pouv of the United Teen Equality Center was profiled as a community organizer intent on registering new Cambodian-American voters. I could not find…
Read More »From This Day in History from History.com: On this day in 1777, during the American Revolution, the Continental Congress adopts a resolution stating that “the flag of the United States be thirteen alternate stripes red and white” and that “the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing…
Read More »Paul Revere suits up in his black and gold sweater in advance of Game 6 of the Stanley Cup finals, which the Bruins won, 5-2.
Read More »Reflections of fence slats and the spaces between them on the Merrimack Canal, by Tony Sampas
Read More »In today’s NYTimes, opinion writer David Brooks rails against what he sees as the utter failure of the two big conventional political parties. It’s fun to read, but I don’t like his insistence on charging both with equivalent incompetence. For once, I’d like him to run down the GOP without having to…
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