whaling

It has the distinction of being one of the oldest buildings on Centre Street in New Bedford and it could now be your new home.

How many of these Jeopardy questions about the SouthCoast can you answer correctly?

The one-room schoolhouse once attended by the first Japanese person to live in America.

There are two new exhibits up and running in New Bedford and both have light as part of their theme.

A former volunteer announced that he plans to keep the event running this year.

On Thursday, July 20, at 7 p.m., the Westport Free Public Library will host a special presentation on a whaling art history book.

The New Bedford Whaling Museum received a $25,000 grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to publish "The Art of the Yankee Whale Hunt" by the museum's senior maritime historian Michael Dyer.

BOSTON (AP) — The New Bedford Whaling Museum has put together a digital list of all the men who set sail on whaling voyages out of the port to help people researching family history. The list contains the names of more than 127,000 sailors as young as 10 and as old as 70 who set sail from 1809 until 1927...

The new Ron Howard film, "In the Heart of the Sea" is a movie that delves deep into the history of whaling in New England and one that ultimately led to herman Mellvilles' novel "Moby-Dick."

The New Bedford Whaling Museum is proud to locally premiere what promises to be a great motion picture, In The Heart Of The Sea. In 1820, crewmen (Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy) aboard the Nantucket Whaleship Essex face a harrowing battle for survival when a whale of mammoth size and strength attacks with force, crippling their ship and leaving them adrift in the ocean... Read M