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COVID-19 crisis: silver linings and rot at the top by Marjorie Arons-Barron

March 24, 2020 by Tony Posted in Current Events Leave a Comment

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. There are so many good things that are happening as we adjust to the scary new normal of hunkering down, staying at home.  But every time I listen to the President at a White House COVID-19 task force…

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Michael Casey: A New Poem

March 23, 2020 by PaulM Posted in Culture, History, Lowell, Poetry, Literature 4 Comments

art and Emanuel       a tale of Fort Wood, Missouri by Michael Casey . when you are making seventy-six dollars a month the idea of spending one hundred dollars on a wall poster when you don’t even have a wall sort of stupid but he sees a leaflet on my…

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Lowell & the Virus: Emily Ferrara’s Blog

March 23, 2020 by PaulM Posted in Current Events, History, Lowell, Science, Coronavirus 2020 Leave a Comment

We are cross-posting this report from “The Body Politic: A View from Lowell, MA,” the blog of poet and community activist Emily Ferrara. A past contributor to this publication, Emily is allowing us to share her observations on the crisis at hand and other city matters. We are grateful. Watch…

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‘Six Feet Away’ by Nicholas Whitmore

March 23, 2020 by PaulM Posted in Current Events, Politics Leave a Comment

 

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Saying Goodbye to Lowell Superior Courthouse

March 22, 2020 by DickH Posted in Lowell 16 Comments

Yesterday we moved the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds from the Lowell Superior Courthouse at 360 Gorham Street to the brand new Lowell Justice Center at 370 Jackson Street. It was a complicated operation, made more challenging by coming in the midst of a pandemic, but it went very well.…

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Photographer Arno Rafael Minkkinen’s Award-Winning New Book

March 20, 2020 by PaulM Posted in Culture, Education, History, Lowell Leave a Comment

Anyone who has been watching the UMass Lowell Art Department in the past few decades knows the name Arno Rafael Minkkinen, a world-class photographer who has been anchored there as a teacher and artist since 1987. He lives in the region, but works the world as an acclaimed photographer who…

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Introducing Nicholas Whitmore, Cartoonist

March 20, 2020 by PaulM Posted in Current Events Leave a Comment

We are pleased to introduce a new contributor to RichardHowe.com, the notable cartoonist Nicholas Whitmore, who creates a daily cartoon for The Journal in Newcastle Upon Tyne on the northeast coast of England. What is Nick doing here in Lowell? He comes to us via his lifelong friend John Wooding,…

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Bob Hodge’s New Book: ‘Tales of the Times”– Bonus Track

March 18, 2020 by PaulM Posted in History, Lowell Leave a Comment

One of our occasional contributors, Bob Hodge, has a new book about his adventures in running, Tales of the Times. Bob finished third in the Boston Marathon in 1979 and won the 1982 Beppa-Oita Marathon in Japan. His memoir is filled with rich and lively accounts of an elite athlete’s…

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An infectious disease expert speaks: worth a listen by Marjorie Arons-Barron

March 18, 2020 by Tony Posted in Current Events Leave a Comment

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. My last blog warned about the need to separate reliable COVID-19 information from misinformation, whether intentional or unintentional,  and rumor. Last week an esteemed British scientist passed on a podcast to my brother-in-law, who shared it with me. …

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A Poem for the Moment by Charles Simic

March 17, 2020 by PaulM Posted in History, Poetry, Culture 2 Comments

As panic sweeps the United States and the world in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, our regular contributor George Chigas of UMass Lowell was reminded of the poem “Fear” by Charles Simic, the Serbian-born Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who has taught at the University of New Hampshire since the 1970s.…

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