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This is the final section of the essay about Lowell that I’ve been posting this week.—PM Cut from American Cloth (5) Places change, people enter and exit the stage—we won’t see Paul Tsongas jogging through the South Common, we won’t see Brother Gilbert who taught at Keith Academy after mentoring…
Read More »The following entry is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Keith Olbermann’s “indefinite suspension” for violating NBC’s policy barring donations to political candidates turned out to be just two days’ off the air. Which probably makes sense because his misstep was not in making the donations to three…
Read More »Thursday, Nov. 18, 7 pm A lecture-performance featuring traditional folk music from all regions of Greece as played on the violin and laouto, as well as lyras from Thrace, Macedonia, Crete, and Pontos, as performed by Beth Bahia Cohen – violin and lyras, and Mac Ritchey – laouto and percussion. This…
Read More »In his latest commentary, E. J. Dionne of the Washington Post group tries to buck up the Democrats who got whacked around on November 2. He points out that the GOP fiercely attacked and stubbornly opposed President Obama for most of the past two years, and came back with a…
Read More »Columnist David Brooks in today’s NYTimes lays out his vision of how to get the nation back in gear. I won’t link to the column, but I will link to the Readers’ Comments, which are the better part of the discussion. Read the readers here, and get the NYT if…
Read More »Tony Sampas continues our observation of Veterans Day with the above photo of the POW/MIA monument on the grounds of the Lowell Auditorium and the monument (below) at American Legion Post 87 on Westford Street dedicated to Alvin “JR” Lutkus – “In honor of his service to his country”
Read More »Nancye Tuttle reviews the newly published Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia, by Richard Francis, an account of the 19th century “hippie commune” established by the literary Alcott Family in nearby Harvard, Massachusetts. Check out Nancye’s review on her blog, Nancye’s World.
Read More »Cut from American Cloth (4) Congresswoman (“Mrs. Rogers”) Rogers was in the middle of a line of Republican U.S. Representatives from the Lowell area who controlled the seat from 1859 to 1974, with the exception of a single two-year term for Democrat John K. Tarbox (1875 – 1877). It took…
Read More »Veterans Day falls on November 11th to mark the anniversary of the armistice ending the First World War. Perhaps no other conflict in western history has generated more acknowledgement of the savageness of our species. The furnaces of the Holocaust represent the result of a society gone mad, led by…
Read More »Community Teamwork, Inc. & the Merrimack Valley Regional Network to End Homelessness Present: Lura Smith in a Gospel Concert of Thanksgiving November 20, 2010 from 12:00 – 2:00PM Eliot Presbyterian Church 273 Summer Street Lowell MA Special Guest Artists The Andover Baptist Church Unity Choir Michael Lally, Founder/Director SRO Bobby…
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