The Groundwork Blog
Awhile back, I wrote the first edition of this column, #tags and the City of New Bedford, which encouraged readers to follow some unique local Instagram accounts. An amazing, event-filled…
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The Hollihock Writers Conference FRIDAY, AUGUST 25 – You’ll find out lots more about HOLLIHOCK in this previous blog post, but it doesn’t hurt to remind readers that this fabulous…
Read More >For the past few years, late August has meant more than back to the classroom for just students. Since the Hollihock Writers Conference launched in downtown New Bedford in 2015,…
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It’s sometimes impossible not to separate a moment in the life of any city from the larger national context in which it takes place. Viewed in this respect, Saturday, August…
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Phone Home FRIDAY, AUGUST 18 – The Friends of Buttonwood Park bring that lovable little alien, “E.T.” to the lawn tonight. Let’s hope Trump’s ICE officers are looking the other…
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If you’ve been anywhere near downtown New Bedford during the past few weeks, you know that the apocalypse is upon Union Street. Not really – I’m being facetious and echoing…
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Alaskan Salmon, Maine Lobster, and…New Bedford Seafood. Removing the ellipse is the job of a new branding campaign launched recently with some impressive tools at its disposal to get the…
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IPO in blubber FRIDAY, AUG. 11 – Before Silicon Valley there was…New Bedford, Massachusetts! A one-day symposium, “Economics of Whaling: The Whaling Industry as the First Venture Capital Business Model…
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Ben Gilbarg is one of Groundwork!’s most prolific members – with an alphabet soup’s worth of acronyms filling out his resume, many of them dedicated to community-empowering pursuits. Ben was…
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Groundwork! at the Feast! BEGINNING THURSDAY, AUG. 3 – I sometimes use “world famous” as a bit of an inside joke and statement of aspiration – but not in this…
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