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‘Not Long Ago Joy Abounded at Christmas’ by Jack Kerouac

December 24, 2012 by PaulM Posted in Culture, History, Lowell 3 Comments

A Christmas Eve memory in this excerpt from the 1957 essay “Not Long Ago Joy Abounded at Christmas” by Jack Kerouac: “. . . Christmas was observed all-out in my Catholic French-Canadian environment in the 1930s much as it is today in Mexico. . . .When we were old enough it was…

New Year’s Day & French Canadian-Americans

January 1, 2011 by PaulM Posted in Culture, History, Lowell 3 Comments

Check this discussion thread from 2002 on Jacques L’Heureux’s Franco-American Connection website for the cultural significance of New Year’s Day among French Canadians. And why is New Year’s Day an official holiday in Massachusetts? Here’s the Lowell connection from worcester.bettysgenealogy.org : New Year’s Day, however, was not an American holiday. It…