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We’ll be posting all kinds of material related to the Jack Kerouac Centennial through the year. Here are 15 haiku by Roger West, a poet and musician in France who has been to Lowell a few times for the annual Kerouac festival. With friends, he celebrated the 100th birthday of…
Read More »Living Madly – Black Tower By Emilie-Noelle Provost Old friends and old wine are best. —German Proverb I’ve been fortunate to have many good friends throughout my life. Memories of wild parties, road trips, quiet conversations, long hikes in the woods, and afternoon barbecues that lasted into the night help…
Read More »Boarding School Blues: Chapter 34 By Louise Peloquin Chapter 34: “Run along now” Noël vacation was only two weeks away. Blanche and her friends were plowing through the curriculum from Latin declensions and new vocabulary to the American Revolution timeline including the March 5, 1770 Boston Massacre, the December 16,…
Read More »While our neighbors may commemorate Patriot’s Day by recalling the opening battles of the Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord – not to mention the Marathon and an early Red Sox start – some in Lowell devote a few moments each April 19th to remembering the members of the Sixth…
Read More »The Revolutionary War began on April 19, 1775, when a British Army expedition marched from Boston to Concord in search of contraband munitions. Confronted by a local militia company on Lexington Green on the way to Concord, firing erupted. Although no one knows who fired the first shot, eight of…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Some of you have read “The Greek Connection: The Life of Elias Demetracopoulos and the Untold Story of Watergate” by James H. Barron. Receiving critical acclaim internationally, my husband’s book, the product of ten years of research and writing, was…
Read More »On this evening in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated while at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Like so much else in American history, there was a Lowell connection to that event. Here’s the story which has been previously published on this site. On April 14, 1865 – Good Friday…
Read More »The Tipping Point By Tim Trask Part 2 The inmates flooded into the chapel in an excited rush, paying no attention to either me or Tiresias. They were just intent on getting good seats. I recognized a couple of the most eager of them. There was Campbell, a transfer from…
Read More »In 1969, Tim Trask returned from the Vietnam War and took a job as a guard at Massachusetts Correctional Institute (MCI) Concord. The following post, and part 2 which follows tomorrow, are taken from his memoir about that experience. The first chapter of that work, Odysseus Wandering, appeared on this…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’ own blog. When was the last time that mainstream media paid this much attention to black-on-black violence? For much of the past week, the Academy Awards historic incident has been the top story in broadcast and print media. The…
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