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SPRING TRAINING By Terry Downes After bitter months of snow As days creep long and longer, Above the Mason-Dixon Line The need grows strong and stronger, To see the pitcher climb the mound And watch the batter takes his place, To hear the thunder of the crowd And wonder who…
Read More »Review of The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 Book by James Holland Review by Richard Howe One of my ongoing Lowell history projects is to document each of the memorial squares spread throughout the city. Until the early 1990s, these squares were mostly dedicated to individuals from Lowell…
Read More »Bill O’Connell has lived in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts since 1984. A retired social worker, he teaches literature and writing at Greenfield Community College. He is a past contributor to The Lowell Review and graduated from UMass Lowell. His books include When We Were All Still Alive (Open Field…
Read More »A 1925 Call to Save Our Industries — (PIP #60) By Louise Peloquin Lowell’s quest to preserve local business and industry has always made the news. The following story and supporting editorial are century-old examples. L’Etoile – February 21, 1925 Lowell must keep its industries Our large local…
Read More »Today’s newsletter will focus on title theft, the label now used for an attempt to fraudulently transfer ownership of real estate. This came before the Lowell City Council at Tuesday night’s meeting in the response to a motion on this topic. (The Council addressed other topics deserving of attention, but…
Read More »On Sunday, February 23, 2025, St. Anne’s Episcopal Church presented “Freedom Seekers: The Underground Railroad and St. Anne’s Lowell” a speaking program that featured UMass Lowell History Professor Robert Forrant and Jacquelynn Coles of the Black Lowell Coalition. The event was part of St. Anne’s year-long bicentennial celebration and was…
Read More »Malcolm Sharps and the Long Road By Stephen O’Connor Nous devrions pourtant lui porter quelques fleurs… —Swinburne It was 1979. I had been on a train all night from Paris to Montpellier, 735 km. This was before the days of the TGV that now flies along the…
Read More »The 100th anniversary issue of The New Yorker magazine (Feb. 10) includes a literary scoop, the first publication of a previously unknown poem by Robert Frost (1874-1963). The short poem, “Nothing New,” dated 1918 in Amherst, Mass., is written in the front of a copy of his second book, North…
Read More »Long ago Lowell buys local – (PIP #59) By Louise Peloquin The “buy local” rallying cry is not new. Since the time Lowell was called “The Venice of America” the city has prided itself on promoting its products. (1) This is the first in a series on the topic. L’Etoile –…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. No Country for Love by Yaroslav Trofimov, the Ukrainian-born chief foreign affairs correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, covers Ukraine from 1930-1954 and is based on the real-life experiences of his own grandmother, whom he interviewed right up to the…
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