Reader Comments on Lowell, MA: Poet Paul Marion from YankeeMagazine.com http://www.yankeemagazine.com/rss/index.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:52:13 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2009-11/features/poet-paul-marion We've been trying to figure out how we in Norwich, CT, can emulate Lowell, MA's success in becoming a National Historic treasure and enjoy the economic revitalization that can follow. Reading this story underscored the parallels in Lowell's and Norwich's histories--as once-prosperous textile manufacturing centers, as immigrant melting pots. Mr. Marion's observations about how a city's history and shared memories are essentially the cultural glue holding a place together and giving it the potential for renewal. This well-crafted, thoughtful and thought-provoking story really goes to the heart of what it means, in my view, to be a New Englander: To know that one's sense of personal identity is strongly bound to a particular, well-loved, richly textured place. Thank you for running it. Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:55:34 +0100