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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi is the remarkable memoir of an Albanian girl, told in the first person starting when she was just seven years old. Ypi sees the world and her homeland…
Read More »On Tuesday night the Lowell City Council voted to amend the Land Disposition Agreement the city executed in 2020 with Lupoli Companies LLC for several parcels in the Hamilton Canal District. The vote was 8 to 2 with YES votes from Councilors Corey Belanger, Sokhary Chau, Wayne Jenness, Rita Mercier,…
Read More »Sports fans had plenty to choose from this past weekend with the Red Sox wrapping up spring training, the Celtics on the march to another title, and the Bruins still competing, but my focus was on the NCAA Basketball tournament, also known as March Madness. There’s no single team I’m…
Read More »On Friday, March 21, 2025, I traveled to UMass Lowell’s South Campus to attend the Khmer Literary Arts Day. The event featured talks and readings by four Khmer authors and then workshops in which participants spent two hours in breakout groups for fiction, poetry, children’s literature, and memoir, working on…
Read More »Tom Sexton at Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, Mass. (photos by Kevin Harkins) Farewell to Our Friend Tom Sexton, American Poet (1940-2025) We learned from his wife Sharyn Sexton that our friend and fellow contributor to this blog Tom Sexton passed away at home in Alaska on March 12…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Becoming Madame Secretary by Stephanie Dray is a piece of historical fiction about Frances Perkins, named by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to be the Secretary of Labor, the first woman elevated to a cabinet position and the longest service Labor…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I’ve never been a fan of Chuck Schumer. I find him frequently ineffectual and sometimes fatuous. But in the current intraparty squabble among Democrats about advancing this week’s Continuing Resolution, I regret to say he and nine other…
Read More »The City’s Director of Elections and Census, Will Rosenberry, appeared before the City Council at Tuesday’s meeting to present a comprehensive memo in response to a handful of past city council motions related to the coming city election. That election will be held on Tuesday, November 4, 2025. State law…
Read More »Living Madly: Nothing Gold Can Stay By Emilie-Noelle Provost The elementary school I went to was built in 1909. The brick building was a replacement for an older wooden school that had been built sometime in the mid-19th century. My grandfather and his three brothers had also gone to the…
Read More »It’s always happening in 1924/25 Lowell – (PIP #62) By Louise Peloquin ***** PIP #61 (1) presented exhibits and new construction in Lowell a century ago. Here are more indications of the city’s vitality. L’Etoile – February 14, 1925 RADIO EXHIBIT OPENING Liberty Hall will hold Lowell’s first radio exhibit to…
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