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Cotton Warehouse, French Street
Cotton Warehouse, French Street, Lowell – Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »‘Hoito’ by Tom Sexton
Another report from the highway by Tom Sexton.—PM “Hoito” by Tom Sexton One of my favorite places when we reach Thunder Bay, Ontario, is a restaurant called the Hoito, the word means “care” in Finnish. It was opened in 1918 on the bottom floor of the Finnish Labor Temple as…
Read More »‘Spruce Lake’ by Tom Sexton
Here’s the latest from the road from Tom Sexton, sent late Tuesday. He is in New England as you read this. I expect the next report will be from Eastport, Maine.– PM . “Spruce Lake” by Tom Sexton This might be the last entry since we’re almost to Vermont. It…
Read More »“Meanderings” by Jim Peters
Frequent contributor Jim Peters sent along this essay: When I was a child, my father was fairly disgusted with my attempts to get out of anything having to do with arithmetic which is mathematics now. I once wanted to be a farmer, not an outrageous goal for a kid living…
Read More »Lowell Cemetery Tours this weekend
It’s time once again for our tours of historic Lowell Cemetery. They are free, require no registration and involve 90 minutes of walking and talking our way around the Cemetery. Because there is so much of interest in Lowell Cemetery, I’ve split it in two for our tours. In the…
Read More »SNL Tickles Clint
Clint Eastwood arguably gave the most memorable speech at the Republican National Convention. The Hollywood legend addressed Obama using a symbolic empty chair as the President’s surrogate. Eastwood claims the unusual speech was unrehearsed and totally spontaneous. Regardless, it became an immediate “media sensation”. Of course, the people over at…
Read More »Romney, 47% Dependent on Government
Here is the audio of Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney saying 47% of Americans are too dependent on the government. According to Politico Romney defended his statement saying, “…the video didn’t fully capture his views or his entire comments about personal responsibility and the role of government in society.” You…
Read More »“Crisis in the house” by John Edward
John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. A housing bubble burst. Homeowners defaulted on mortgages. Banks foreclosed on homes. Add in a loosely regulated shadow banking system and the…
Read More »“Innocence of Muslims” film test First Amendment beliefs by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Set aside such unacceptable (and criminal) ”clear and present” dangers such as shouting Fire in a crowded theater, as a journalist I have always thought of myself as something of a First Amendment absolutist. That’s being tested these days. The cornerstone…
Read More »Butterfly Bush
While walking through the grounds of the Whistler House Museum of Art yesterday on our way to the “Bernie & Bill” exhibit, the person I was with exclaimed “what a beautiful butterfly bush!” I’d probably heard of such a shrub before but the name never made much of an impression…
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