Meet our Gallery Director: Jessica Bregoli
Jessica Bregoli has steadily developed a bold and ambitious curatorial style since taking over the Groundwork Gallery last spring. Read about what inspires her in this interview.
Community Happenings
Member Spotlight: John Weaver
John Weaver writes about, consults for, and develops commercial solar projects. He also happens to be one of those inspiring entrepreneurs who is making it on his own.
Member Spotlight: Shonna Ryan
Groundwork member Shonna Ryan is a freelancing wizard, community volunteer, and the kind of person you want on your team.
Fall Activities in New Bedford and the South Coast
Autumn is one of the best times to experience New Bedford and the South Coast– the beach crowds are gone and the harvest is upon us. Here are some local activities to enjoy the season.
Member Spotlight: Steve Markowski
Steven Markowski is one of New Bedford’s unsung heroes. If you haven’t seen him around town supporting new businesses and events, you aren’t paying attention.
A bit of Santa Rosa de Copán on New Bedford’s Acushnet Avenue
Here’s a story right out of a Nicholas Sparks novel. New Bedford native Jeffrey Pelletier was a volunteer worker in Honduras years ago. Unfortunately, Jeff’s desire to help ran a bit of ahead of his proficiency speaking Spanish. Therefore, within an hour of starting work at the relief organization, a supervisor paired him with a…
Why the North End needs a Restaurant Week
I’m still waiting to get mugged. For the past few weeks, I’ve been walking up and down Acushnet Avenue signing up restaurants and eateries for the LOVE THE AVE & NORTH END RESTAURANT WEEK happening from Saturday, Sept. 15 through Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. The event is part of a larger effort – an outgrowth…
A Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage ‘Round the World
A nice perk of being a writer and journalist is the opportunity to check things out before they are headlines. That happened last week when I got a preview of the Whaling Museum’s restored 1,275 foot long “Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage ‘Round the World.” Originally painted around 1850, it was lost in an…
New Bedford’s real parking problem
Studies have been done. Streetscapes have been ripped up. And parking garages have gone up, come down, then gone up again. Over the years, New Bedford has worked mightily to address its parking problem. In reality, there isn’t a parking problem. There’s a walking problem – as in Americans become neurotic when they can’t find…
Sacred Spacemaking: Celebrating 9 Years of Yoga on Union
In the yoga world, we often feel pressure to have some ohm-shanti samadhi experience every time we practice. At Yoga on Union, I felt the space to work through my condition: grumpy, happy, sad, angry… whatever it might be.