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The entry below was cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Sometimes you just have to pile on, which is why I feel compelled to weigh in on the firing and potential rehiring of Shirley Sherrod by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The executing arm may have been that…
Read More »Paul Krugman in his NYT column today tells why we are not getting serious energy policy legislation out of Washington, D.C. Krugman lines up with Andrew H., if you’ve been reading this blog regularly. Read his essay here. Krugman’s colleague Ross Douthat takes a different view on the consequences in his…
Read More »Break dancers from UTEC and the “Yo Yo People” [youtube]kSh9gXiCGOI[/youtube]
Read More »Scenes from the streets of Lowell during the 2010 Lowell Folk Festival [youtube]F3c5vAOk3UM[/youtube]
Read More »Photos of some of the ethnic food booths at the 2010 Lowell Folk Festival [youtube]CNwQXa4MP7U[/youtube]
Read More »Photos of some of the performers at the 2010 Lowell Folk Festival [youtube]PArQLfEfwdg[/youtube]
Read More »Photos of some of the people I saw at the 2010 Lowell Folk Festival [youtube]IMwoAI8Tj68[/youtube]
Read More »Kudos to the City of Lowell, Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitor Bureau, Lowell Festival Foundation, Lowell National Historical Park, and National Council for Traditional Arts for once again being the prime movers behind an inspiring and joyful Lowell Folk Festival. The Sunday crowd was much smaller than yesterday’s, but it…
Read More »The popular Franco-American singer-songwriter Michele Choiniere of Vermont this afternoon at Boarding House Park dedicated her final song at the Lowell Folk Festival to Jack Kerouac because, she said, “He was a Franco-American, and he was from Lowell.” I missed her additional comments about the song and the title, but it…
Read More »Have you created a special blogger persona for yourself – an anonymity in the internet world? It might surprise you that according to research done by Tal Yarkoni of the University of Colorado at Bolder – a blogger’s choice of language is in fact not concealing or masking the “real you”…
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