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Patti Smith’s Trail: A Review-Essay

October 13, 2020 by PaulM Posted in Literature, Culture, History, Lowell 1 Comment

Spurred by our Texas friend Frank Wagner’s essay about meeting Patti Smith in the late 1970s, an encounter with a cranky, thirty-something, tightly wound artist, we’re reprising this review-essay about Patti Smith’s most recent book, Year of the Monkey, just out in paperback. Note that former Lowell Sun journalists Nancye…

Farewell, Maya Angelou; Remembering Her Lowell Visit

May 28, 2014 by PaulM Posted in History, Lowell, Poetry, Culture 1 Comment

MAYA ANGELOU PAPERS ACQUIRED; REMEMBERING HER IN LOWELL This is a re-post from Oct. 27, 2010, offered today in remembrance of Maya Angelou’s life and writings. The post began with a head note: Today’s NYTimes includes this article about the Harlem-based Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the NY Public Library…