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Did you know that Herman Melville's 'Moby-Dick' was partially inspired by a real-life giant white whale with a similar-sounding name?

Hollywood played a role in designing the interior of New Bedford's famed Seamen's Bethel.

The New Bedford event will start on July 3 and end on August 1, Herman Melville's birthday.

New Bedford is the city most associated with Melville's 'Moby-Dick,' which played an important role in naming Starbucks, yet we do not have a Starbucks in New Bedford.

The festival features an epic reading of Herman Melville's famous novel.

Broadcaster, curator, author and filmmaker Philip Hoare will visit the New Bedford Whaling Museum on Friday, May 18 to discuss the meaning behind Herman Melville's words, 'we account the whale immortal.'

I was reading a Boston Globe article about three different establishments laying claim to being the oldest bar in Boston, and it got me thinking about the same question on the South Coast. After all, in an area where the Quakers had a stronghold, it would be interesting to find out if Abe Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne or Herman Melville drank here...

There's some good news for a local history project that's been announced. The New Bedford Port Society and New Bedford Whaling Museum have entered into an agreement that leases the ground floor of the Port Society-owned Mariners' Home to the Museum for the display of Museum artifacts related to local maritime history...

Hundreds of people shipped off in search of a great white whale this weekend, but from the comfort of inside the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

Two men report being mugged along New Bedford's waterfront Thursday night. Det. Lt. John Chaves says the two men were riding their bicycles to work Thursday night near the 200 block of Herman Melville Boulevard when two men rode up in a car beside them, got out, and threatened the victims at knifepoint demanding cash...