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Here’s some news from Mill City Grows “Build-A-Garden” Program Brings Five New Vegetable Gardens to Lowell Lowell Housing Authority, Stoklosa School, Robinson School, Pawtucket Congregational Church, and UTEC to install garden beds in April Lowell, MA – January 3rd 2014. Mill City Grows, an initiative that fosters food justice by…
Read More »Guest contributors are always welcome. Send your post or pictures by email to DickHoweJr@gmail.com and I’ll add them to our site. Maxine Farkas, an artist who lives and works at Western Avenue sent the following. Remember, tomorrow is the first Saturday of the month so it’s Open Studios at Western…
Read More »Yes, the January 2/3, 2014 snow storm is a bad one…but the video below, posted on YouTube by wgbhstocksales, reminds us that the Blizzard of ’78 was the mother of all storms. The scenes are from Harvard Square in Cambridge.
Read More »Just got word that the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds in Lowell will be closed ALL DAY on Friday due to winter storm.
Read More »As the former Producer of WLLH’s “Morning Magazine” show hosted by the late Paul Sullivan, this video brought back some pleasant memories. The “Music, Memories and More” format on WLLH was very popular and a great success. This video was originally posted on YouTube by stevations
Read More »In keeping with Paul’s nod to Robert Frost, let’s remember another Merrimack Valley poet even more associated with the beauty, wiles and challenges of a snow storm. John Greenleaf Whittier – a rural Haverhill-born poet – offers the narrated tale of a snowstorm in early 1800’s New England. Let we forget – Whittier has the…
Read More »Dust of Snow The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree . Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. —Robert Frost (1874-1963) . “Frost’s own poetical education began in San Francisco…
Read More »I didn’t expect the snow to begin until later this morning but at least an inch had fallen by 5 am. I’ll either update this post or add others as the storm progresses. Please send you pictures and observations to me at DickHoweJr@gmail.com or leave them here as comments.
Read More »Many decades ago there was a local radio announcer whose name I now forget who boom out across the airwaves “No school, all schools in Lowell” on days when the weather cancelled school for the day. (Maybe someone can help me with that name). Modern technology has given us Jay…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. For much of the year, my husband and I debate whether a movie is worth seeing on a big screen or relegated to Netflix. But our winter holiday tradition is to binge on in-theater movies during the last 10…
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