New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park

Loss of the Historic Baker-Robinson Whale Oil Refinery Rankles Officials at New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on April 20, 2010 - 1:59am

The recent loss of a historic whale oil refinery in the vicinity of New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park serves as a harsh reminder that historic preservation is typically subject to marketplace rules.

National Park Quiz 59: Only

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on June 17, 2009 - 3:30am

This week’s quiz should take only a little while. Answers are at the end. If we catch you peeking, we’ll enroll you in the Vinnie and Carmine Institute of Attitude Readjustment.

You Still Can Visit Herman Melville's New Bedford

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on November 12, 2008 - 6:22am

Books can take us on adventures and to places we never thought possible. Through Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, one can travel the mid-19th Century world's oceans and return to a tiny East Coast sea port once viewed as the world's richest cities.

Lewis Temple And His Impact on 19th Century Whaling

Summertime: What National Parks Are On Your "Must Visit" List?

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on July 13, 2008 - 2:07am

One-hundred-and-forty-five years had passed since Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was mortally wounded by "friendly fire" in the woods at Chancellorsville, and yet it might have been yesterday. Thick forest still hangs over the waning vestige of the Old Mountain Road where the general was riding, beyond the front lines, on the night of May 2, 1863, when members of the 18th North Carolina mistook him and his aides for a Union incursion.