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This year’s Independence Day Parade in Chelmsford will begin at 10 am this coming Monday, July 5, from the McCarthy Junior High School and will proceed down Route 4 to the town center. An estimated 15,000 spectators will watch the parade; consider becoming one of them. Here are some scenes…
Read More »July 1st – on this day in history in Lowell, the United States, Canada and elsewhere as noted by AP and many other sources: 1690 The Battle of the Boyne was waged in Ireland. 1848 A new railroad station on Middlesex Street in Lowell owned by the Nashua and Lowell…
Read More »Excuse me, but I just can’t take this Russian spy thing seriously. You see I was born in 1951 and lived my early years in the heart of the Cold War. I experience the “Red Scare” first hand. And let me tell you, when you’re an innocent kid and “they”…
Read More »At a city parking garage I recently received a handful of golden colored $1 coins as change from the payment kiosk and was amazed to discover they all bore the image of —- Franklin Pierce. The logic was inescapable: an obscure president on an obscure coin. Later I mentioned it…
Read More »Auxiliary Bishops-Elect Kennedy and Uglietto The United States Conference of Bishops announced today that Pope Benedict XVI “has named Father Arthur Kennedy, 68, and Father Peter J. Uglietto, 58, priests of the Archdiocese of Boston and both seminary rectors, as auxiliary bishops of Boston. The pope also accepted the resignation…
Read More »The Eagle-Tribune is reporting today that opinions vary on the future impact of Caritas Holy Family Hospital going the for-profit route. The fifth of six public hearings was held last night in Methuen by the office of AG Martha Coakley and the Department of Public Health who are both overseering…
Read More »[youtube]hHUiCYAE2DY[/youtube] For those of us old enough to have grown up watching Rocky and Bullwinkle constantly clash with (and always prevail over) Russian spies Boris and Natasha (shown above), news that a Russian spy ring was rolled up comes as no surprise. While the accents and trench coats remain as…
Read More »I wake up early every day, but today I got up even earlier to check on our young cat who came home from the vet’s late yesterday after being spayed. We were told to watch her closely for several days to be sure she is recovering as expected. I was…
Read More »This is the eighth of a series of posts I will be doing on human evolution. The previous one can be found here. As always, please leave any questions you’d like to have answered. What makes our species unique? We are not the only species with culture, nor are we…
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