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SouthCoastToday.com
March 8, 2018
NEW BEDFORD — March is Women's History Month, and AHA is out to celebrate history, herstory and all of our stories. AHA! (Arts, History and Architecture!) is a FREE family-friendly event held rain or shine on the second Thursday of each month from 5 to 9 p.m. in historic downtown New Bedford.
Fall River Herald News
February 28, 2018
... executive director of the Women's Center, asked what women wanted and described respect, access to education, affordable day care and rights and laws to protect their bodies from violators. As the first speaker, MacLeod-Lima's words gripped the entire third floor room in the New Bedford Public Library.
SouthCoastToday.com
February 27, 2018
As the first speaker, MacLeod-Lima's words gripped the entire third floor room in the New Bedford Public Library. Her final words acted as the most powerful, even altering her voice. “What do we want?” she asked one more time. “We want a world where no woman has to say again, 'Me too.'”.
SouthCoastToday.com
February 22, 2018
The Friends of the New Bedford Public Library and Whaling City Sound bid farewell to winter with two “Winter Warming” concerts. On Sunday, Feb. 25 from 2 to 4 p.m., New Bedford folk/soul guitarist and vocalist Cedric Josey will perform at “Tryworks,” at New Bedford's Unitarian Church. In addition to theÃâà...
SouthCoastToday.com
February 11, 2018
Each branch of the New Bedford public library will have the book to give out to anyone who holds a library card or signs up for one during the month of February. Birthday celebration: 4 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, UMass Dartmouth Unity House, 285 Old Westport Road in Dartmouth. The Society will give outÃâà...
SouthCoastToday.com
February 11, 2018
A few weeks ago, researching some art for a story that the Sunday paper was doing on the archive material that James B. Congdon left to the New Bedford library, I asked Jay Avila over at Spinner what he might have to illustrate it. Jay searched diligently and though he did not have any photos of the guyÃâà...
SouthCoastToday.com
February 8, 2018
Bring the kiddos and Please be Seated in the pop-up bistro at the New Bedford Public Library. Join Little People's College for a “Lady and the Tramp” story followed by a spaghetti plate craft. • Also at the library, New Bedford Parks, Recreation and Beaches invites you to take a seat with local artist Noah andÃâà...
SouthCoastToday.com
January 31, 2018
Each branch of the New Bedford public library will have the book to give out to anyone who holds a library card or signs up for one during the month of February. 18th annual Frederick Douglass Community Read-a-Thon: 2 to 6 p.m. Feb. 11, First Unitarian Church, 71 Eighth St. in New Bedford. If you'd likeÃâà...
SouthCoastToday.com
January 31, 2018
Each branch of the New Bedford public library will have the book to give out to anyone who holds a library card or signs up for one during the month of February. Poet and Hip Hop Artist Kane Smego: 11 a.m. Feb. 6, Jackson Art Center (H-Building) Auditorium, BCC Fall River campus, 777 Elsbree St. KaneÃâà...
SouthCoastToday.com
January 20, 2018
Marchers move up Union Street to the New Bedford Public Library during the New Bedford Woman's March. [DAVID W. OLIVEIRA/STANDARD-TIMES SPECIAL/SCMG]. Hide caption. Women listen to the speakers outside of the New Bedford Public Library during the New Bedford Woman's March. [DAVIDÃâà...
SouthCoastToday.com
January 13, 2018
A photograph of James B. Congdon is part of the Congdon papers at the New Bedford Free Public Library. [ PETER PEREIRA/THE STANDARD-TIMES/SCMG ]. Hide caption. New Bedford public library Head of Special Collections, Jodi Goodman, retrieves the box containing the Congdon papers.
SouthCoastToday.com
July 13, 2017
Funded by the Glass Horse Project and in association with the City of New Bedford Public Library and Department of Parks, Recreation and Beaches, ... to show our community the continuous relevance of literature in today's society,” Olivia Melo, director of the New Bedford Public Library, said in release.
SouthCoastToday.com
June 17, 2017
The medieval manuscript is only a small part of the New Bedford library's renowned collections. Among the works that reside there are important ones by some of the city's artists with national reputations like Albert Bierstadt and William Bradford. Also up on the third floor of the imposing classical downtownÃâà...
SouthCoastToday.com
October 7, 2016
NEW BEDFORD — Supporters of Bob's Tire workers in their push for better working conditions and higher wages were to hold a speak-out Thursday evening on the steps of the New Bedford Free Public Library. The workers, most of whom are members of the Ki'che' ethnic group from Guatemala, voted toÃâà...
