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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. “All politics is loco,” Senator Ed Markey told a gathering of the New England Council on Monday, paraphrasing a favorite saying of House Speaker Tip O’Neill of Cambridge. Just part of the craziness this week is the President’s…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Kingmaker by Sonia Purnell, author of A Woman of No Importance, is another display of the author’s mastery of biography. In this scrupulously researched and documented chronicle, her subject is Pamela Churchill Harriman, a too-often-dismissed woman of consequence. A woman of power…
Read More »The Lowell City Council met on Tuesday night. What seemed like an innocuous item on the agenda, a vote to accept the draft 2024-2028 Lowell Housing and Housing Production Plan, generated considerable discussion. In his transmission letter to the council, City Manager Tom Golden explained the purpose of the plan:…
Read More »Next Tuesday, June 17, 2025, is the semisesquecentennial of the Battle of Bunker Hill, the decisive Revolutionary War fight that took place 30 miles south of here. In honor of this 250th anniversary, I am reposting a story I’ve published several times, followed by another past blog post about those…
Read More »The Pleasure and the Sadness of “Owning the Libs” By Rev. Steve Edington This editorial was originally published in the Saturday/Sunday—June 7-8, 2025 —edition of the New Hampshire Union Leader **** While doing some mall shopping recently I noticed someone wearing a sweatshirt that read “Make a Liberal Cry.” That…
Read More »Field Day By Leo Racicot I remember with great clarity, even though it was over fifty years ago, Lowell High School’s Field Day, May, 1968. I don’t know if schools still schedule field days. These were planned festivities in celebration of the end of the school year, usually organized by the…
Read More »BAItter Books for a Brave New World By Stephen O’Connor The future of literature in the age of AI could go several ways. Here, the author, utilizing only three pounds of gray matter, eighty percent of which is water and five percent, beer, encased in an admittedly thick skull, imagines…
Read More »This coming Thursday, June 12, 2025, at 6 pm at Luna Theater at the Lowell Community Charter Public School on Jackson Street (in the former Mill No. 5), there will be a reading of the famed speech by abolitionist Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852 on the topic, “What to…
Read More »The Lowell City Council commenced its summer schedule this week which means there was no meeting last Tuesday. From now through September the council will meet on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month. On these “no meeting” weeks, I will instead write about Lowell history both to provide…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Sitting at Fenway Park last week got me to thinking about the mystique of what used to be American’s #1 pastime. The beloved image is of a warm summer night, a gentle breeze blowing the American flag in…
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