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While the city of Lowell has been the scene of many close elections, perhaps the most notable one is the 1953 city council race that was ultimately decided by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court five months after the election. The combatants in this contest were incumbent councilor Nicholas Contakos and…
Read More »Our regular contributor from Alaska, Tom Sexton, sent us a new poem that shines a light in the darkness in these days that are getting shorter, with the news often disturbing. As he wrote on Sunday, October 24th, “At least the Pats won.” We need every and any reason to…
Read More »Boarding School Blues: Chapter 24 By Louise Peloquin Ch. 24: Merci Mon Oncle Blanche and her siblings got up early the morning of Thanksgiving. Along with Noël and Halloween, it was the most exciting day of the year. There were no wrapped packages under decorated trees and no brown paper…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Friday’s job numbers and dip in unemployment to 4.6 percent might have made it easier for Democrats running in Tuesday’s elections in Virginia and New Jersey. So, too, might earlier passage of the infrastructure bill and tentative…
Read More »Report from the UN COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow, Scotland By David Turcotte David Turcotte, a UMass Lowell Research Professor and a member of the steering committee of the University’s Climate Change Initiative, attended the recent COP26 conference in Scotland and shared this report: The feelings are mixed about…
Read More »I delivered the following remarks on November 11, 2018, at the Greater Lowell Veterans Council Veterans Day ceremony at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium. The Lessons of History By Richard P. Howe Jr. Thirty-eight years ago this Wednesday – November 14, 1980 – I boarded a plane at New York’s JFK…
Read More »Dedication of Vietnam Memorial – November 1982 By Dean Contover We left Lowell, Massachusetts, on November 10, 1982, at about 6:30 p.m., headed for the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans monument in Washington, D.C. We decided to stop overnight in Atlantic City and then go on to Washington the next…
Read More »“I Hear You Lima Charlie—How Me?”: A Radio Transmission From The Jungle War By Bill Crawford The electric crescendo overhead went strangely silent as the thunder and lightning gave way to the drumbeat of rain on the rusty tin roof. The Hawk feverishly spun the dials on his old field…
Read More »Visiting With Two Very Special Veterans By Steve O’Connor (Originally posted on May 24, 2009) In the following essay, originally read on UMass Lowell’s Sunrise program on WUML, Steve O’Connor remembered a day spent with two very special veterans, Edwin Poitras and Jack Flood, both of whom survived unsurvivable circumstances…
Read More »An American in Paris By Louise Peloquin On September 16, 1940, the US passed the Selective Service Act allowing the draft of eligible men for military service. Hence, Laval U. Peloquin, one of nine children born to French-Canadian immigrants Joseph and Marieanne, was plucked out of civilian life and deposited…
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