New Bedford
Restored Whaling Ship to Relaunch in July
TheDay.com: After 5 years and almost $7 million of work, Mystic Seaport will relaunch the restored whaling ship Charles W. Morgan at a July 21 ceremony that will feature documentary filmmaker Ric Burns as the keynote speaker. The launch...
New Bedford Programs Examine Women in the Fishing Industry
SouthCoastToday: During March, the Working Waterfront Festival’s Portholes Project will present 3 programs exploring the theme “Women in the Industry.” The free presentations, which are open to the public, are being offered in conjunction with the Zeiterion Performing Arts...
Ship Model Lecture at Whaling Museum
R. Michael Wall is the first of several distinguished speakers featured in the 23rd Annual Sailors’ Series lectures. His illustrated talk, “The Art of Ship Models: Collections of the Past, Present and Future,” takes place on Thursday, February 28,...
New Bedford Boat Ramp Affected by Terminal Project
SouthCoastToday: A set of anti-fish barriers marked by an orange boom, white buoys and a stream of bubbles in the water is the first serious sign that momentum on the South Terminal project is scaling up. The...
Schooner Ernestina Makes Most-Endangered List
The schooner Ernestina, currently berthed in New Bedford, Massachusetts, has been selected as one of the 10 most endangered historic ships in 2012, according to The Fydeye Guides, a website devoted America’s maritime history, lighthouses, and historic ships. You...
New Bedford Moby-Dick Marathon Could Draw Thousands
SouthCoastToday: Shortly after Moby-Dick was published in 1851, a critic dismissed the “ravings” of author Herman Melville and his characters, writing in the Southern Quarterly Review that they justified “a writ de lunatico.” One wonders what he might make...
2013 Moby-Dick Reading Marathon Coming Up
The 17th annual Moby-Dick Marathon is the longest continually running readathon of Herman Melville’s literary masterpiece. The entire text of the book will be read aloud continuously by various readers from January 4 to January 6, 2013, at the...
New Bedford Hurricane Barrier Turns 50
SouthCoast Today: Fifty years after construction of the city’s hurricane barrier first started, it’s still drawing attention. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the barrier, which the city celebrated Thursday with a proclamation for the Army Corps...
New Bedford Harbor Project Could Create 43K Jobs
SouthCoastToday: The South Terminal project cleared a major hurdle Monday, when the Environmental Protection Agency announced its approval of a port facility hailed by officials as the most promising economic development in the city for the last 50 years....
Cape Wind Could Use RI Ports as Staging Areas
TheDay.com: Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee has met with officials from the Cape Wind offshore wind project planned for Massachusetts about possibly using the state’s ports as the wind farm’s construction staging area, and a project spokesman told The...
