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The plaque on Cardinal O’Connell Parkway, photographed by Tony Sampas
Read More »Lowell’s Mardi Gras
I guess I haven’t been downtown on St Patrick’s Day for a couple of years, othewise I wouldn’t have been suprised to see the street festival that this day has become in Lowelltown. I had meetings downtown between 3 and 5 pm. It was Green Halloween. Bunches of people in emerald…
Read More »At Lowell City Manager’s St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast: No Corned Beef but Lots of Blarney
March 17, 2011
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Marie
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The funniest guy at Lowell City Manager Bernie Lynch’s St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast this morning is dead -but God rest his soul never forgotten – the Ultimate Toastmaster and Emcee – the late Kenny Harkins. By opening with a wonderful video* tribute to two greats from past Manager breakfasts – the…
Read More »‘Digging’ by Seamus Heaney
Digging . Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; as snug as a gun. Under my window a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground: My father, digging. I look down Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds Bends low, comes up…
Read More »Talkin’ Baseball with Yaz: Dan Shaughnessy in Globe
I enjoyed this article about Carl Yastrzemski by Dan Shaughnessy in yesterday’s Globe. Web photo courtesy of boston.com (Boston Globe photo by Stan Grossfeld (c) 2008)
Read More »Boston Celebrates the First Evaculation Day – March 17, 1901
MassMoments reminds us that on this day – March 17, 1901 – the Mayor Thomas N. Hart – declared a new holiday for the city of Boston – Evacuation Day. It was the 125th anniversary of the day in 1776 that General George Washington and the fledgling Continental Army forced the British to…
Read More »Joint Redistricting Committee Meets
The first meeting of the Joint Committee on Redistricting was held today. From the website of the 187th General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – a statement from the Redistricting Committee cochairs and the first scheduled meetings on the Redistricting Calendar: The Special Joint Committee on Redistricting will study…
Read More »New Irish PM to Visit White House, Ireland Fund Gala and NYC Parade
Presentation of the traditonal “Shamrock Bowl’” President Obama – 2010 Since the Eisenhower Administration – the St. Patrick’s Day presentation of shamrocks to the President of the United States has become an important tradition. In 1952 what was then a ceremonial “box of shamrocks” became a custom-made Waterford crystal vase – now…
Read More »March Madness Poem: ‘Nine-Foot Hoop’ by Eric Linder
Here’s a poem by my old friend Eric Linder, a poet and bookstore owner. He had the Chelmsford Bookstore in Chelmsford Center for a long time and now runs Yellow Umbrella Books in Chatham, Mass., right on the main street.—PM . Nine-Foot Hoop . I put up a basketball hoop…
Read More »St Patrick’s Rectory, Lowell
Along with these photos of St Patrick’s Rectory at 282 Suffolk Street, Tony Sampas sent the following note: The Irish Cross adorning the St Patrick’s rectory by day and by night. One explanation of the green coloration is that it leached down from the copper flashing. But in America you…
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