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As an outgrowth of my study of Abraham Lincoln for this spring’s “Lowell Reads Lincoln” event at the Pollard Memorial Library, I’ve sought out some additional Civil War-era books for summer reading. One is a yellowing paperback copy of “The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South” written in 1956…
Read More »The New York Times today profiles Nevada US Senate candidate Sharron Angle’s apparent strategy of avoiding contact with the mainstream media at all cost. Angle is the Tea Party candidate who went from longshot to Republican nominee despite gaining national attention for suggesting the people should pay for their health…
Read More »“A pair of peregrine falcons nesting on the roof of the 18-story Fox Hall at UMass Lowell successfully hatched 2 chicks this spring. On June 2, a team from the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife checked their status & put I.D. bands around their legs. As usual, the chicks’…
Read More »I’m hearing more enthusiastic comments about the upcoming music shows at Boarding House Park than I have heard in recent years. The line-up that Peter Aucella and John Marciano have put together has really made people pay attention. Opening night with the Taj Mahal Trio was a smash by all acccounts, and…
Read More »Today’s decision of the United States Supreme Court in McDonald v Chicago came as no surprise. This case involved a citizen’s challenge of what he considered an overly restrictive gun control law in the city of Chicago. Two years ago, the US Supreme Court clarified the long-ambiguous 2nd Amendment to…
Read More »The Irish Civil War began on June 28, 1922. It was fought between the provisional government of Southern Ireland (which became the Irish Free State on December 6, 1922) and the IRA members who were unwilling to accept the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921, which had formally established the Irish…
Read More »Back in 2007 – Ellen Murphy Meehan served as Campaign Chair for Niki Tsongas’ run in the special election to replace Marty Meehan. Marty served as Congressman from the Fifth Congressional District from 1993 to 2007. Tsongas loyalists and supporters just got the message by e-mail – Ellen Murphy Meehan is…
Read More »For those who have teenage children or who remember those days when you and your children were in the throes of those teen years – reading today’s Globe story “Miracle grow. The teen brain is a marvel of smarts. It’s just not all filled in (yet)” by Elizabeth Cooney is a must.…
Read More »Under the headline “Brown outpolls Kerry, Obama” a front page story in today’s Boston Globe by Frank Phillips and Matt Viser presents the findings of a recent poll conducted for the Globe by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. Read the full story here to get the Globe’s spin,…
Read More »This report is from www.bostonmusicspotlight.com. Thanks for the reporting: “Furthur to jam on at Lowell Spinners’ ballpark “Grateful Dead members Phil Lesh and Bob Weir will bring their new musical project, Furthur, to Massachusetts for a special show this summer. The band will rock Lowell’s LeLacheur Park, home of…
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