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This poem is from the winter of 1983-84, when I was living in Southern California just south of Laguna Beach. Dana Point was a small coastal town that has since expanded to the extent that there is now a Ritz Carlton there. When I was there it was the bottom edge of…
Read More »These days there continues to be a kerfuffle in certain places when mentions or symbols or images of Christmas make their way into our public schools. While perusing the December 24, 1971 edition of the Lowell Sun, I came across a story about a play presented at Lowell’s Reilly School.…
Read More »“Venice of the North Series: Boott Cotton Warehouse, Eastern Canal” by Richard Marion (c) 2011 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »The entry below is from the Middlesex Community College blog. The story touched me when I read it. Is is wonderful to read such an inspiring story on the holidays. One last post before Christmas, to give a holiday high-five to one of our own, Chris French, 21, of Lexington,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog The national mourning following the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is so staged as to be laughable. Its purpose was to reinforce the idea that people should cope with the “grief” by staying loyal to…
Read More »Computer Science doctoral candidate Zhongli Liu demonstrates “Hawk,” an unmanned mini helicopter-based aerial wireless kit for search, rescue and surveillance that she helped to design with her team Yinjie Chen, Benyuan Liu, and Asst. Prof. Xinwen Fu at the UMass Lowell Center for Cyber Forensics to assist in thwarting cyber…
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