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A co-worker recently loaned me South Station, a 2005 novel by Alice Barton who the book jacket describes as a “poet and longtime teacher of writing at the University of Massachusetts at Boston [who] lives on Cape Cod.” This book broke into my usual stream of nonfiction because it is…
Read More »On September 7, 1992, Labor Day that year, the lead editorial was about Lowell and Lowell National Historical Park. It was tremendous exposure for the city and our history. Read the editorial here from the NYT archives, and get the paper if you want more. Here’s how it begins: Youngsters…
Read More »Captain John Ogonowski Memorial Preservation Farmland, Dracut Massachusetts In today’s Nashua Telegraph staff writer Albert McKeon recounts the thoughts and memories of Peggy Hatch – the widow of John Ogonowski of Dracut – pilot of Flight 11 on September 11, 2001 – and his brother Jim. After ten years, life…
Read More »When Scott Brown held a fundraiser at a Lowell Spinners baseball game where he handed out bobble heads of himself, MASSUNITING activists decided to head to Lowell to cheer on the Spinners and remind Brown of his bobble-head voting record. Check out this video to see what happened when Brown…
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