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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 »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 »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…
Read More »There are too many things happening today at the Kerouac Literary Festival to list them. For the schedule, visit www.lowellcelebrateskerouac.org or www.uml.edu/artsandideas The 2.5 hour bus tour of Kerouac sites with Roger Brunelle guiding is already underway. Next event is 11 am at the Kerouac Commemorative, Kerouac Park, at Bridge…
Read More »Rita Savard of the Sun wrote a great background story about Bob Dylan and Lowell in nothing flat so that it hit the streets just as lots of people were talking about Dylan coming back to Lowell. Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg at Kerouac’s grave in Edson Cemetery, November 1975. We…
Read More »This has been an eventful week in Lowell, from city-building plans and cultural electricity to the news about CTI moving and some serious gun crimes. And the week is not over. Let’s focus on the epochal first. Following is the link to the Sun’s page one story about the Downtown Evolution plan unveiled yesterday morning by urban…
Read More »AP writer Beth J. Harpaz commented the other day about Mark Bauerlein’s best-selling book “The Dumbest Generation,” which contends “that cyberculture is turning young people into know-nothings… ‘the absence of technology’ confuses kids faced with simple mechanical tasks.” This is a very hot and controversial topic – over two hundred…
Read More »In honor of the Jack Kerouac Literary Festival, Tony Sampas share some photos central to Kerouac’s Lowell. The crucifix shown above is atop the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes at the Franco American School on Pawtucket Street. The below photo of a sculpture with the crucifix tucked into a…
Read More »Late yesterday afternoon I traveled to Middlesex Community College for a presentation on a study on “voter participation demographics in Lowell, Massachusetts” conducted by Professor Marcos Luna and his graduate students in the Department of Geography at Salem State University (the full study is available HERE). Luna was attracted to…
Read More »On September 27 the three candidates forthe Chelmsford Board of selectman introduced themselves to the current committee. All videos originally posted by re007hq Jim Lane Jerry Loew Pat Wojtas
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