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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When I was eight years old, I knew my family, my neighbors and some of my elementary school classmates. I knew we lived in Boston, scarcely understood Massachusetts and had no sense of nations or nation-states. If my…
Read More »Our blogging colleague Kad Barma called attention to this item: Lowell filmmaker and photographer James “Jim” Higgins won the Grand Jury Prize in the 2010 Screaming Ant Film Festival, which is a huge deal even though some of us have not heard of this annual online festival. His film “A Fairy’s Tale”…
Read More »The US Congress has left me befuddled and confused this week. They’re actually accomplishing things, in sharp contrast to their record earlier in the year. Aside from Wall Street reform, it’s as if the Health Care Reform battle paralyzed our representatives. Since the election – just since Thanksgiving, more accurately…
Read More »I wrote the first draft of this poem in 1976, and worked on it on and off for a long time. I had in mind the extensive outdoor lighting displays in Dracut (the town) and Lowell, but especially as it evolved the dense array of Christmas decorations in Pawtucketville, between Mammoth Road and…
Read More »Tony Sampas photographs the Nativity diorama at St Patrick’s Church in Lowell
Read More »A story in today’s Globe traces Lowell Police sergeant Micky O’Keefe’s newest career as an actor, after his starring role in the Mickey Ward biopic “The Fighter” which has created quite a buzz both here in Lowell and throughout the country. Here’s the full story from the Globe.
Read More »Yesterday’s news that the Commonwealth will lose a Congressional seat as a result of the 2010 census adds another element of drama to the 2012 state election. Not only will the presidency and the US Senate seat held by Scott Brown be on the ballot, but now we have the…
Read More »The Boston Herald’s Jessica Van Slack is reporting today that the Suffolk University Board of Trustees has a 13-member committee ready to go in search of a new President. Longtime President David Sargent has retired. It’s not a surprise that Van Slack “stirs the pot” – reporting that four seach committee members…
Read More »Read the boston.com article here and see US Rep. Niki Tsongas’s comments.
Read More »Steve O’Connor, author of “Smokestack Lightning”, learned much about life while working as a clerk at the Davis Square Drug Store back in the 1970s: When my son approached the age at which he began to become convinced that he needed his own car, I put some vexing questions to…
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