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Who Remembers…..Kinyon Campbell?

Here is another installment in our Who Remembers? series. You can browse previous articles by using the search bar on the right. These articles are strolls down memory lane. In some cases, the buildings may still exist, but new businesses have replaced them. In other instances, the buildings or even …

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Who Remembers…Five Vintage Autos?

For this installment of “Who Remembers?” let’s take a stroll down the automobile memory lane. We’ll only go back a few decades since we have to “remember” and that means we have to be alive! 😉 We’ve revisited past buildings, structures, and businesses, so I though it time to cover …

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Five Historical “Firsts” of New Bedford

In this series, I’d like to take a lighter approach to the history of the Whaling City. I come across a lot of really interesting historical facts and the vast majority of them do not merit an entire article. The problem is that they are just too interesting to not …

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Whaling Terms For Landlubbers: “Gamming”

We promise there will be no swabbing of the decks, scaling to the crow’s nest or flogging via cat-o-nine tails. If you already know what it means to have an appetite for a salt horse, would look forward to gamming (not gaming), or could definitely steer a sea vessel two …

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