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Following are excerpts from a seqence of poems titled “Purple Ritual” in Joseph Donahue’s first book of poems, Before Creation (1989). The sequence in much longer and more complex than these passages suggest, but today it seemed important to me to share part of this composition for the record. At…
Read More »“Salmon Sky Above the Mills” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »[youtube]eih67rlGNhU[/youtube] Someone once joked to me that walking through downtown Lowell was like visiting a casting call for Les Miserables. That was twenty years ago. I’m not sure how much has changed. It’s really in the nature of cities to attract all kinds of people, from the very well off…
Read More »This newly available photo of President John F. Kennedy just minutes – maybe seconds – before he was killed in Dallas, shows a smiling, welcoming crowd. See the series of eight photos here at Time Magazine/LightBox taken by H. Warner King, an amateur photographer. Read his daughter’s story of why they only recently…
Read More »Here’s some information from the city of Lowell office of special events: CITY OF LIGHTS PARADE & HOLIDAY CELEBRATION USHERS IN THE 2013 HOLIDAY SEASON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. IN DOWNTOWN LOWELL Daytime Family Activities, Strolling Carolers, and the 6th Annual Hot Chocolate Competition lead…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Still-a-state rep Marty Walsh appeared yesterday on Channel Five’s On the Record. The candidate who, in debates and interviews, was unprepossessing at best, often awkward with rhetoric trending banal, is looking more and more mayoral. His presentation was…
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