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Next Thursday (July 7) at 6:30 pm, the Pollard Memorial Library nonfiction book club will meet in the library’s Community Room to discuss “Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919” by Stephen Puleo. The book has been around for a while – it was published in 2003 –…
Read More »In today’s Boston Herald’s there’s a staff “off the wire” report that Mark Wahlberg is keeping fit and in training for the sequel to “The Fighter.” MARK WAHLBERG is already training to film “The Fighter 2.” “Before I made the first one I knew that the second one was in…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Be sure to check it out too. Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan will likely result in tragic outcomes, especially for women and children. But keeping U.S. forces there to prevent those problems would take many years, an…
Read More »Nostalgia is the theme in this video of the July 4 parade in Chelmsford in 1970. This video was originally posted by johnstonleonard
Read More »Can I say that the Globe has gone a bit goofy with its Whitey-mania coverage? I admit that I boosted the instant commentary by James Carroll and Kevin Cullen two days ago when the story hit like a safe on a mouse. That was good writing. But they are pushing…
Read More »I’ve been waiting for somebody to do something like this–bring the people with money together and get them to pledge to hire more people to do things that need to be done. Ole Bill is bringing his Clinton Global Initiative to Chicago to do just that. Read all about it…
Read More »From the Prelude to Part First of – “The Vision of Sir Launfal” by James Russell Lowell: And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear…
Read More »On this day – June 27, 1963 – President John F. Kennedy, son of Massachusetts and son of County Wexford – arrived in Ireland. Celebrating the Irish roots of this American President, warm and welcoming crowds greeted President Kennedy in his ancestral home in Dunganstown and in Dublin. He described…
Read More »Nice video…originally posted by masshousingvideo providing an update on the Appleton Mills. A former factory in downtown Lowell is being redeveloped into affordable rental housing thanks in part to approximately $35 million in financing from MassHousing.
Read More »The spectacular 11th annual African cultural Festival held at Sampas Pavilion on Pawtucket Blvd along the banks of Merrimack River in Lowell. Video originally posted by AjabuTV
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