Recently, Peter Meggison and Max Isaksen gathered to hunt for historic postcards at an estate sale on West Island. They entered as soon as the sale opened, dashed in and scooped up all the postcard albums that were available. “It took seconds,” says Isaksen. Because postcard collecting is a small world, they knew Beverly Wilson, […]
Here comes September — back to school, back to work, back to reality. Lucky for us we live on the South Coast and our reality is pretty darn sweet. Here are our 8 Great Things for the month ahead. Annual Onset Bay Illumination One of our all-time summer favorites (postponed by rain earlier this year
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In last year’s print issue, we set out to find a half dozen cool overnight adventures on the South Coast. We’re rolling them out online for those of you who don’t have the 2016 magazine. Today’s feature: overnight at Fall River’s Battleship Cove. If you’d like to see it as it appeared in the magazine,
The First Zero Net Energy Campus Science Lab in the Northeast Last December, I toured the John J. Sbrega Health & Science Building on BCC’s Fall River campus with its architect, Jim Moses from Sasaki Associates. Over the past two years, he’s been making weekly trips to check in on the building — I’d been
What does a prison break, Queen Victoria, and Australia have to do with St. Patrick’s Day in New Bedford? The answer lies in a thrilling 1876 escape from a remote Australian prison involving six Irish Nationalists, a secret agent, a rowboat and a fearless sea captain. Sarah Rose, Curator of Education at the New Bedford