By 8:00 am on July 4, the streets leading south from Route 6 to Shipyard Park in Mattapoisett were beginning to show signs that something big was about to take place. By 8:30 am, nearly every available parking space was filled and the sidewalks and streets were swarming with people in a festive mood. Adrenaline […] Read more »
The Marion Art Center’s 11th Annual Arts In the Park juried art festival is an opportunity for the public to witness the glory of human artistic expression. From pottery to painting, from photography to wearable art, the offerings were, in a word, magnificent. The brutal heat on July 6 did nothing to hamper the overall […] Read more »
When it comes to the 4th of July in the Tri-Town, Marion is the perpetual frontrunner with its grand parade, horse show at Washburn Park, and elaborate fireworks display. Even on years when there aren’t any fireworks on the nighttime horizon, Marion’s annual parade makes up for it year after year with more spectators, more […] Read more »
She wanted all the mail brought to her. She didn’t want anyone deciding if she should receive the advertising fliers, weekly grocery store bulletins, or enveloped solicitations – she wanted the whole lot so her fingers could walk through a world of merchandise uninhibited by time or place. She’d take her time going through the […] Read more »
The last of the Tri-Town tours should have been the starting point. After all, Rochester was, in the beginning, the only town that existed in what we know today as the Tri-Town area. Marion and Mattapoisett were only villages within its borders. But that’s not all, Wareham was also once part of Rochester. That aside, […] Read more »
How does a museum filled with materials from days gone by stay vital in a world where Internet connections span the globe, information sought is instantly found via a search engine, and historical relics can be viewed in 3-D on a digital screen? That question is just one of many that challenge 21stcentury museum boards. […] Read more »
The second of three walking tours planned for each of the Tri-Towns stepped off from the Mattapoisett Historical Museum (MHM) on June 23 under splendid summer skies. The Healthy Tri-Town Coalition, along with the historical societies in Rochester, Marion, and Mattapoisett, planned the walks as a way to connect people with the history of the […] Read more »
The Williams family of Rochester has done something quite amazing: they have raised over $6,000 for the Buzzards Bay Coalition (BBC) as Team Splash. On June 22 they, along with 276 other supporters of the BBC mission, entered the waters of the outer harbor at New Bedford’s south-end and swam towards Fairhaven emerging at Fort […] Read more »
The striped bass, affectionately called a striper for the dark lines along its side by sportsmen, prefers a water temperature from 55 degrees to 68 degrees. To stay in this range, they migrate both in spring and fall. With the arrival of summer, the spring migration is all but complete in Buzzards Bay, having started […] Read more »
Marion residents are excited about the arrival of the life-sized bronze statute of its beloved beneficiary Elizabeth Taber next year, and artist Erik Durant who was commissioned to create the sculpture is just as excited to share in the creative process as he transforms an idea into the physical form of the woman who literally […] Read more »