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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. My husband and I are no longer COVID virgins. A two-week bout with COVID, from which we’re just emerging, left me feeling disinclined to write but very much inclined to seek comfort in reading. Fiction was the…

This coming Wednesday, October 25, 2023, at 5:30pm at Moloney Hall, University Crossing, 220 Pawtucket Street in Lowell, the UMass Lowell Saab Center for Portuguese Studies will present a program and talk with filmaker Christian de Rezendes on “Portuguese Connections: Documentary Filmmaking on History and Culture.” Selected portions of de…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. In a recent surreal interview, ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy blamed the Democrats for the chaos in the House of Representatives. (He wasn’t the only GOP official trying to sell that bill of goods.) The public isn’t buying it. Let’s be clear. McCarthy…

“A little star dust caught” (PIP #4) By Louise Peloquin  The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star dust caught. – Henry David Thoreau Let’s peek into Louis-A. Biron’s routine at L’Etoile. Anecdotes, gathered over…

The entry below is being cross postred from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Did W. B. Yeats have it right? “Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.” Such are one’s fears today. The United States government is…

Tuesday’s Lowell City Council meeting ended in a concise 1 hour, 50 minutes, mostly because there were just two motions on the agenda. It’s true that two Councilors (Wayne Jenness and Kim Scott) were not at the meeting, but such absences have never caused those in attendance to curtail the…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. It started with three sites. Now there are three dozen more places where auto workers have gone on strike, seeking a better contract. They follow by months the many writers and actors striking the entertainment industry for…

I’ll lead the fall tours of historic Lowell Cemetery this weekend. The same tour will be offered twice: Saturday, September 30, 2023, at 10am Sunday, October 1, 2023, at 10am Both tours begin at the Knapp Ave entrance (77 Knapp Ave on GPS). The forecast for Saturday is for showers…

This post was scheduled for last week during “Preliminary Election Week” but somehow failed to appear so I’m posting it today.  Here are the results of the 1973 Lowell City Council preliminary election: 1. Armand LeMay 8878 2. Robert Kennedy 8623 3. Leo Farley 8088 4. Ellen Sampson 7648 5.…