Posts Tagged “9/11”

‘9/11 at Home’

Remembering those persons who perished on 9/11 today, especially those with local connections. This entry is cross-posted from my blog at paulmarion.com Posting this on 9/11/2019 in memory of John Ogonowski of Dracut, Mass., where I grew up, and the other persons affiliated with the University of Massachusetts-Lowell who perished,…

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‘9/11’

I waited a long time before writing about 9/11, not because I didn’t want to but because I could not find the right words. I had composed a short, oblique poem called “The Cut” that delved into the way Nature tends to heal itself when it can, the way tree…

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9/11 Memorial at UMass Lowell

Monument to the University of Massachusetts Lowell community (alumni and family members of alumni) who perished on September 11, 2001: Patrick J Quigley IV, Christopher Zarba ’79, Jessica Leigh Sachs, John A Ogonowski, ’72, Robert J Hayes, ’86, Brian K Kinney, ’95, and  Douglas A Gowell, ’71. Photos by Tony Sampas.  …

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Hundreds Celebrate Restoration of the Grotto and Way of the Cross at Franco American School

Congratulations to Franco American School Principal Lorraine Richard, SCQ, Director of Development Colleen Tully and the Board of Directors of the Franco American School, former state Sen. Steven Panagiokos, and all the generous craftspeople and donors for the extraordinary restoration of the Way of the Cross at the Grotto of…

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‘Common’

Common . Nineteenth-century designers saw parks as breathing spaces whose trees would pump oxygen through tenement and mansion alike. Even the vocabulary of green spaces freshens speech—grove and bee, clover and pebble, pine cone and jay.  Seagulls on the common across the street from my family’s house stand as stout…

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