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Picture Essay Fort Hill Lowell
This video contains some spectacular pictures of Fort Hill in Lowell. This video was originally posted on YouTube by squawkt22. [youtube]rcHmy19wLvE[/youtube]
Read More »Kerouac Festival: After-Action Report (1)
It will take me some time to process the multitude of impressions and facts of this past weekend’s Kerouac Festival, but I want to share some initial observations: 1) We accomplished the goal of drawing a larger and more varied literary audience to the city with a broader menu of…
Read More »Jim Peters on why he’ll vote for Deval Patrick
Jim Peters sent a blog post explaining why he’ll be voting for Deval Patrick on November 2: Deval Patrick is an enigma. A poor boyhood, with an apparently protective mother, led to scholarships at the most prestigious of universities and a life during which he learned to enjoy things that…
Read More »Michael Pierson on the start of the Civil War
UMass Lowell History professor Michael Pierson gave a spirited lecture today at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium’s Hall of Flags as part of the Moses Greeley Parker Lecture series. Pierson, the author of two books on the Civil War ( “Free Hearts and Free Homes: Gender and American Antislavery Politics” and…
Read More »Foreclosures continue to rise
If you go to www.lowelldeeds.com, the website of the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds, it’s fairly easy to calculate how many documents of a particular type of been recorded during a period of time. With the direction of our real estate market so closely linked to the rise and fall…
Read More »Kerouac’s Reach, the Reporting, & the Rakes
Sun writer Angel Roy’s article in this morning’s paper explores the geographical and generational reach of Kerouac. People from Texas, Ohio, California, Rhode Island, Nevada, and elsewhere came for the Kerouac Literary Festival. From Thursday through Saturday nearly 2,000 people attended the events, which continue through late afternoon, with the now-traditional David Amram…
Read More »‘Look at a Dry Leaf’
Trees are changing color on the South Common. The early reds, golds, rusts, and yellow-oranges in every variation multiply by the day. Green leaves still predominate, but won’t last more than a couple of more weeks. I walked the dog this morning in air that was colder than cool. This is…
Read More »Names of the Dead: September 26, 2010
Here are the names of American service members who died in Iraq and Afghanistan this week, as reported by the New York Times: Iraq CARILLO, John Jr., 20, Specialist, Army; Stockton, Calif.; Third Infantry Division. NOONAN, Gebrah P., 26, Pfc., Army; Watertown, Conn.; Third Infantry Division. WHISENANT, Marc C., 23,…
Read More »Russell Banks at the Kerouac Literary Festival
This past Thursday night I attended one of the opening events of the Kerouac Literary Festival at the UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center (formerly known as the Doubletree Hotel). Novelist Russell Banks, the author of a dozen major books and a three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction,…
Read More »Sean Bielat and moving the goal posts on immigration by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When will increased border security be enough? For Republican Sean Bielat, that may be never. Bielat is the businessman and former Marine who wants to take over the 4th district seat held for three decades by Congressman Barney Frank. Emily Rooney…
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