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Hood’s Milk – (PIP #76) By Louise Peloquin After last week’s snapshot of a Hood’s milkman in the 1960’s (1), here’s another peek into the past. L’Étoile, December 12, 1924 The milk for the growing child should not only be a regular ration three times a day but should also be…
Read More »The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Mountains Sing , a first novel by Vietnamese poet and author Nguyen Phan Que Mai, is a saga about the Tran family, against the backdrop of 20th century Vietnamese history, is told from two perspectives. First is that of grandmother Dieu Lan,…
Read More »The city council met on Tuesday night and addressed several topics worthy of comment, although no single issue dominated debate. School Funding – Recall that when the city manager proposed this year’s city budget, the school department cautioned that the amount of cash allocated to the schools was insufficient to…
Read More »Prince of Darkness, indeed. By Dave Perry Ozzy Osbourne was in many ways, the perfect everyman rock star, a complete fuckup gifted with a voice that launched heavy metal, a true love and appreciation for his fans and family and a sense of humor and persona that drew millions –…
Read More »Looking Back to 1968 by Paul Marion In late November 1968, my friend Susan April walked three miles in the rain from her home in Dracut, Mass., to buy the new Beatles double album at a Lowell record shop and hitchhiked home when the paper bag from the store began…
Read More »Michael Ansara of Carlisle, Mass., who has family roots in Lowell, has published a first-person account of the social turmoil of the 1960s and ’70s, a time when he was a young activist, fired-up in pursuit of peace and justice. His book, The Hard Work of Hope: A Memoir is…
Read More »Movie Theaters of Lowell…and Beyond…. By Leo Racicot My lifelong love of the movies began when I was a boy; every Friday night in summers, my father and I would pile into his old, green Plymouth and head for Lowell Drive-In Theater or Chelmsford Drive-In Theater to see the latest…
Read More »It’s Monsieur Hood! By Louise Peloquin Summer memories of a Lowell Highlands childhood pop up like fireworks as the dog days jolt this forever-young baby-boomer. Halloween adventures and Christmas celebrations remain vivid. A couple of them have been posted here. (1) Outside of these landmarks, routine occurrences, like the Hood milk deliveries,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron. Every day, the 45th President of the United States finds a new low to which he can drag down the country, whether in eviscerating the rule of law, subverting our international relations, wantonly pandering conflicts of interest, or rapaciously using…
Read More »There was no Lowell City Council meeting this week due to the summer schedule so today I’ll catch up on a variety of topics. To begin, a couple of items in last week’s newsletter warrant further comment: In recounting the council’s discussion of a replacement project for sidewalks and streetside…
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