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This blog’s frequent contributor Steve O’Connor has his first novel on the shelves: “The Spy in the City of Books.” Today’s Sun includes a fine preview article about the book and the story behind the story. Steve’s book-launch party is this Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Athenian Corner on Market…
Read More »The MetroDesk of the Boston Globe has a Michael Paulson story about the next step planned by the Achdiocese of Boston in dealing with seven closed parishes. These parishes have lost a final appeal with the Vatican to have them reopened. Included in the seven – is the Lowell Parish…
Read More »With the centennial of the famous 1912 Bread and Roses Strike in Lawrence approaching, will scenes like this one below of union workers protesting cuts in pay and benefits multiply in the months ahead as state legislatures grapple with budget shortfalls? Read the NY Times article that goes with the…
Read More »Thanks to Guy Lefebvre of the Lowell Gallery who sent along this print of the July 8, 1865 Harper’s Weekly which shows a story about the dedication of the Ladd & Whitney Monument in Lowell. Luther Ladd and Addison Whitney were two young mill workers from Lowell who were killed…
Read More »Some abstract art from Tony Sampas. This photo shows the spire of the First Congregational Church/Smith Baker Center, as seen through the granite columns of the Pollard Memorial Library.
Read More »With warm weather forecast for the next few days and spring training underway in Florida, Steve O’Connor shares a baseball story: I have a cousin several years my junior named Michael Stirk who moved to Chicago after college. I rarely see him, since Chicago is way past Worcester, and since…
Read More »After two consecutive nights of watching the Westminster Dog Show I kind of fancy myself an expert in dog breeding. Well, I guess there is only one way to put this… the judges at the Westminster Dog Show and I totally disagree. They awarded “Best in Show” to the Scottish…
Read More »This note is from Steve Edington, president of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! Inc., from the group’s website at www.lowellcelebrateskerouac.org “Plans are already shaping up for the 2011 October LCK Festival which, this year, will run from October 6-9. We’re building this year’s theme around the anticipated release in August, 2011, of…
Read More »Tony Sampas shares these street scenes of Lowell
Read More »Last night I traveled to the Needham Public Library to hear Chaim “Mike” Rosenberg talk about his new book, “The Life and Times of Francis Cabot Lowell, 1775-1817.” Lowell is the man for whom our city is named, although he died (at age 42) before the city was even founded.…
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