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Farewell, Charles J. Roy (b. Dec. 14, 1922, Lowell)

July 10, 2015 by PaulM Posted in History, Lowell Leave a Comment

I learned this week that my late mother’s brother, Charles J. Roy, passed away after a long illness. He had been living with his wife, Frances, in Menifee, Calif., the state where he had moved in the mid-1950s. His son and daughter, Charles Jr. and Maureen, are in California with…

from ‘Search by Night’ by Jack Kerouac (Dec. 1941)

December 7, 2010 by PaulM Posted in Culture, Education, History, Lowell 2 Comments

“From the low-lit fastnesses of my study, I looked solemnly at the newspaper headlines. On my desk, its brown pigeon-holes stuffed with ledger, manuscripts, sheet, inkwell, sentimental token . . . . on this desk of mine I lay the screaming visage of a Hearst tabloid—it said: JAPAN DECLARES WAR…