Ellen and I went up to her friend Cam's house in Lake Arrowhead last weekend, joining a group of about 8 just relaxing and enjoying the mountain air. I read most of Obama's book "Dreams from my Father," which I found alternately boring and deeply insightful. Kind of like therapy, or professional wrestling.
I also took a few hours off to go to a local bar to watch Game 6 of the Red Sox attemtp in vain to reach the World Series. It was fun -- there's always some half-in-the-bag guy near you wanting to chat or tell you his life story. One guy introduced himself as a Dr. from Lowell. At the end of the game I bid him a "see ya Dr. Lowell." He said, slurring his speech a little, "I'm from Tewskbury." I mentioned his earlier reference to the once-bustling Massachusetts mill town. "Oh -- well no one's heard of Tewksbury, so I say Lowell." I replied with a smile, but to myself I thought, how many more people have heard of Lowell than Tewksbury?
Tonight we head to Cam's annual Hallloween party; this year the theme is "Denizens of Emerald City." I'm going as the guy who first answers the door. Also, I'm playing ukulele while one of Cam's singing cousins sings that ukulele version of "Over the Rainbow."
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Well, Jack Kerouac came from Lowell. The history of the Lowell millworkers are somewhat wellknown. Lowell was also the HQ for now-defunct Wang laboratories. I can't think of anything to say about Tewksbury. So I guess I see the guy's point.
Well, I do know that Joan Tewksbury
danced the part of the Ostrich in the original Broadway production of "Peter Pan."
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