Tuesday, February 19, 2013 7:00-9:00 PM Jack Kerouac Reading & Discussion Series The second of a five-part Jack Kerouac reading and discussion series led by Dr. Todd Tietchen of the UMass Lowell English Department. The discussion is on “The Town and the City” parts 3 – 5. location: UMass Lowell, South…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron own blog. Mea culpa. On December 4, this very blog expressed the sense that Boston Mayor Tom Menino should hang it up. Quit while he was ahead. Yield to diminished physical capacity and rest on his laurels. Accept congratulations…
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Growing up in Lowell, I always heard stories of my great grandfather using ashes from the coal furnace in the family home on Shaw Street to fertilize the backyard where he grew hundreds of pounds of potatoes each year. It is those stories, in part, that propel me outside each…
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