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The Massachusetts Genealogical Council is coming to Lowell! The group will hold its 2020 seminar, Origins & Destinations, at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center on Saturday, April 4 and Sunday, April 5, 2020. Registration is open to anyone and you may register for one or both days at…
Read More »Here are the motions on the agenda for the upcoming March 10, 2020, Lowell City Council meeting: Councilor Mercier – Request City Manager have the proper department address the speeding on East Merrimack Street from 3 PM to 6:30 PM and set up a patrol to alert drivers of the…
Read More »What? St. Patrick’s Day coming up? Need a gift, even if a few days after? Everyone is welcome to the book launch for “North & South Ireland: Before Good Friday and the Celtic Tiger,” documentary photographs from the mid-1980s by the notable Jim Higgins of Lowell. The event is Sunday,…
Read More »Nancye Tuttle sent us a new essay about her encounters with famed chef Julia Child. On the counter of our kitchen in a short line of cookbooks, Rosemary and I have an autographed copy of The Way to Cook from Rosemary’s mom, who attended the Lowell event described below. Read…
Read More »Here are some results from yesterday’s Democratic Primary elections in Massachusetts and around the country: Massachusetts (with 90% reporting): Joe Biden – 33.7% – 425,543 Bernie Sanders – 26.6% – 336,187 Elizabeth Warren – 21.2% – 268,337 Michael Bloomberg – 11.7% – 148,514 Pete Buttigieg – 2.7% – 33,937 Amy…
Read More »Bernie Sanders, Good Parenting & Market Basket By George Chigas In a recent Boston Globe editorial (“We asked every Democratic presidential candidate the same reader question,” Feb. 25, 2020) each of the candidates competing for the Democrat Party nomination listed their top policy priorities. For most, the climate emergency topped…
Read More »Please welcome Matthew Jones to our roster of contributors: Something Terrible I Stopped Thinking About By Matthew H. Jones A million years ago, when I was nearing my eleventh birthday, I swam in a lake almost completely sheathed by evergreens and old growth. It was man-made with a looming cement…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It’s time to play my role in Super Tuesday. I’ve joked that in November I’d vote for a ham sandwich over Donald Trump. Any of the remaining candidates could do a better job than the incumbent. Nevertheless, I…
Read More »Super Tuesday The Massachusetts Presidential Primary Election is this Tuesday, March 3, 2020. The polls in Massachusetts will be open from 7am until 8pm. In Lowell, at least, there will be no school that day (which is a security measure since most polling places are within schools). Here are the…
Read More »Making Peace with the Duke By David Daniel TCM was running a John Wayne retrospective, and Lacey, the bartender, had it on the TV. “Isn’t there a Bruins game?” I asked. “What, you got a problem with the Duke?” someone on the stool to my left said. He had shoulders…
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