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Welcome to our newest contributor, Jack McDonough, who formerly read his essays on WUML’s Sunrise program. Here’s his first submission to this site: The Mail Order Tree I don’t remember how old I was when my father sent away for that Tulip tree. I guess I was twelve or so.…
Read More »Pawtucket Congregational Church in Lowell, Massachuestt – National Register of Historic Places -2007 Today Secretary of State William F. Galvin – who also chairs the Massachusetts Historical Commission -announced that the Historical Commission is accepting nominations for the 33rd Annual Preservation Awards Program. This award program recognizes preservation projects and individuals that…
Read More »“. . . There was at the time of the Civil War, a group of young men and women hardly more than boys and girls, who frequented our house, played croquet on the lawn and bowled in the long, low bowling alley; old when I remember it, and covered from…
Read More »Tom Sexton sent a new poem from the coast of Maine where he’s wintering more easily than in the Alaskan icebox. He’s working on a new book of poems. Lowell (and all that that contains) is the subject. Look for the new collection in the fall. In the meantime, mark…
Read More »A study of light and shadow by Tony Sampas, featuring Lowell’s North Common Village
Read More »At 5 am the thermometer read -3 degrees so I bundled up and headed out for a walk. With the right clothes, it wasn’t too bad, but with no fleece for the dog, we cut the walk short and returned a half hour later. I thought the temperature had gone…
Read More »Growing up in the 1960’s, while home from school on snow days or sick days, I would sometimes stumble on to the Jack Lalanne show as I spun the TV dial from Jack Chase and Don Kent on Channel 4 to Major Mudd on Channel 7. Lalanne was a bit…
Read More »Ivy, our Yellow Lab, celebrates her 3rd birthday today.
Read More »Next month the NENPA – the New England Newspaper and Press Association – will recognize writers, editors and photojournalists from the Lowell SUN with nine awards. The association will gather for its annual convention and dinner at Boston’s Park Plaza Hotel on February 11-12. While the final placement has not…
Read More »This video was taken right on Market Street in Lowell by jeffason10. Here is the posters description of the video: on market street this is a sharp-shinned hawk he was not getting off his catch i was 4 feet away a good shot lowell massachusetts
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