So, who is this Ed Lowe (There are others, you know)?

BIOGRAPHY: ED LOWE

Once a Lindenhurst, N.Y., Junior High school English teacher, Long Island’s raconteur/columnist Ed Lowe joined The Suffolk Sun as a daily newspaper reporter in August of 1969. Two and a half months later, the Sun set.

Newsday, the reigning Long Island daily newspaper, hired Ed as a reporter. He became a featured Newsday columnist in 1976, writing stories and essays three times a week, until December of 2004, when he accepted two offers, one for an early retirement incentive from Newsday, by then a property of the Tribune Co., of Chicago, suffering badly from a costly circulation scandal; and the other to write once a week for the weekly Long Island Press, as well as The Neighbor Newspapers, for about the same pay.

Ed Lowe appeared for 14 seasons as a regular panelist on "Father Tom and Friends," a weekly cablevision show produced by Msgr. Tom Hartman, former director of Telecare, and, more notably, of , "God Squad" fame. The "Friends" show was cancelled after Msgr. Hartman’s fifth year suffering from Parkinson’s Disease, and, coincidentally, after Ed Lowe wrote for the third or fourth time that William Murphy, the Bishop of Long Island's Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, formerly a prelate working under since-disgraced Cardinal Bernard Law, of the Archdiocese of Boston, should have been prosecuted for his participation in the conspiratorial cover-up of the Boston clergy’s sustained tolerance of felony crimes committed against children by clerics.

From 1999 to 2002, Ed also hosted a daily radio talk show, "Lowecally Speaking with Ed Lowe" on what then was WLUX 540AM, since renamed WLIE. In each of its three years on the air, Ed’s program won a FOLIO award from the Long Island Coalition for Fair Broadcasting.

A humorist-raconteur after the fashion of Mark Twain and Bill Cosby, Ed has performed at Long Island comedy clubs and has served as a Master of Ceremonies or delivered the keynote address for hundreds of charity gatherings and galas, National Honor Society inductions, high school and college commencements and conventions of professional societies, industrial associations and trade and union organizations. He has keynoted superintendent staff conference days for 73 school districts, three BOCES supervisory districts, six statewide conventions of educators and education administrators and several national conventions of business and trade organizations.

Co-author with New York psychotherapist Stanley Siegel of "The Patient Who Cured His Therapist" and, "Uncharted Lives," both published by Dutton/Plume, Ed Lowe has edited two published collections of his own work: "Ed Lowe’s Long Island," and "Not As I Do -- A Father’s Report."

A Marist College (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) alumnus, father of four and grandfather of four, Ed Lowe lives with his property taxes in Amityville, N.Y., on the South Shore of his beloved Long Island, close to Great South Bay, his mistress.