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Michael Edema Leary-Owhin: Photos of London in Lockdown (April)
Michael Edema Leary-Owhin is the author of Exploring the Production of Urban Space: international comparisons of three post-industrial cities (University of Chicago Press, 2016), a study of Lowell; Manchester, England; and a section of Vancouver, Canada. A pdf is available here. Michael sent us a recent set of 40 photographs…
Read More »Paul Hudon: Diary in the Time of Coronavirus (4)
May 10, 2020
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PaulM
Posted in 2020 Election, Coronavirus 2020, Culture, Current Events, Lowell Places, Election 2020
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Historian Paul Hudon sent his fourth week of diary entries during the virus crisis. Along with him we are all feeling “the world is too much with us” (nod to Wordsworth) with this long-running health catastrophe. Making sense of this new condition takes all our wits. Late in the week…
Read More »Lowell Cemetery Virtual Tour Part II
Here’s a second, all new, virtual tour of historic Lowell Cemetery. Today’s tour features: Two Lowell residents who served as governor of Massachusetts A young mother and daughter who lost their lives at sea A Civil War soldier from a prominent Centralville family who lost his life to Confederate raiders…
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Overseers in Lowell Textile Mills
There’s a new section on the UMass Lowell Center for Lowell History website. It’s called “Overseers in Lowell Textile Mills” and it brings to life the stories of a class of management personnel often lost in our focus on the line-working Mill Girls and the wealthy Mill Owners. Written by…
Read More »‘BITTERN CRY’ by Fergus Hogan
May 8, 2020
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Chris O'Connor
Posted in Literature, Nature, Trasna, Ireland, History, Poetry
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Our sensibility recognizes the divine in Nature and Ceremony. With vision and voice, Fergus Hogan’s lyrics intensify the connection and set it afire. ****** FERGUS HOGAN READS FROM ‘BITTERN CRY’ ****** Three Stones for a Decision there’s a path through the woods round the lake where I pray that I…
Read More »Throwback Thursday: May 8, 2007
Here’s a new feature for this site: Throwback Thursday. We’ll repost an article from the archives. Our first offering comes from 2007, the first year of this blog’s existence. It was written by Marie Sweeney about the rapidly forming race to succeed Marty Meehan in Congress. Women in the “Fabulous…
Read More »Stephen O’Connor: Over-the-Hill Soccer
The Over-the-Hill Soccer League (2005) By Stephen O’Connor On Sunday morning, August 28th, some three thousand-five hundred soccer players, ranging in age from 30 to 70 kicked off the Fall 2005 season of The New England Over-the-Hill Soccer League. The men make up one hundred and ninety-six soccer teams from…
Read More »Doug Sparks: ‘Isolation Scenes (III)’
Magnesium Nights and Hummingbird Mornings (Isolation Scenes III) By Doug Sparks One: Landlines On Thursday night, I got a call from my mother’s assisted living facility. She is running a fever, I was told. They are testing her, again. My mom has had dementia for over a decade. When it…
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