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Paul’s post on the Kerouac Commemorative reminded me that there is information available on other Lowell public art renderings. While there is more commemorative and monumental art out on the Lowell scene, this Lowell Public Art Collection – Walking Tour with an easy-to-follow map is available on the UML/Center for…
Read More »Lowell Celebrates Kerouac, Inc., the tireless community group that produces literary and cultural events in March and October each year as a tribute to the lasting inspiration of Jack Kerouac, posted on its Facebook page several photographs of the Kerouac Commemorative in Kerouac Park at Bridge and French streets. The…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. One Southie resident interviewed on television about Whitey Bulger’s capture shrugged, “he’s a mobster; everyone has to have a profession,” or words to that effect. Others remembered Whitey’s reputed largesse, leaving money with a priest so people would…
Read More »Erin McKean tells us in today’s Boston Globe “The Word” that spelling bees are no longer just the realm of students in grammar school. You remember those days. Every school – both public and private – in the Greater-Lowell area had a spelling bee that sent the winner to a…
Read More »Jacquelyn Malone’s new book of poems, “All Waters Run to Lethe,” will be released at at book party on Sunday, July 17, at 2 p.m., at 153 Sanders Ave. in Lowell. The publisher is Finishing Line Press of Kentucky. Jackie’s work has appeared in many literary journals, including Poetry Magazine, Ploughshares,…
Read More »Who knew? There’s a sustainability trap in the cable TV box. Front page report in NYTimes today about the energy-sucking cable TV boxes and allied home entertainment gadgets that are not designed with “green” in mind at all “because nobody asked us to use less [energy],” according to one “box…
Read More »Mass Moments, the electronic almanac of Massachusetts history, reminded us that yesterday was the 336th anniversary of the start of King Philip’s War which, when measured by the percentage of population killed, was the deadliest war in the history of North America. Although the fighting broke out in Plymouth, it…
Read More »Frequent contributor Jim Peters shares his thoughts with us . . . I promise to have an article about Native Americans in this area in the next installment. I have been doing quite a bit of thinking lately, mostly about my father who is wrestling with cancer, mesothilioma, if I…
Read More »Last night, when New York became the sixth state in America to legalize same-sex marriage, it was an event of great historic import, but from this Massachusetts perch, it was a bit anti-climatic. Contrary to all the predictions of Western Civilization as we knew it collapsing back in 2004 when…
Read More »The Globe’s writers have stepped up their game for the crime saga unfolding in real time in Boston. In today’s paper, commentators James Carroll and Kevin Cullen have their say about the James Whitey Bulger horror show. Carroll has a masterful essay that puts the crime story in perspective, both…
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