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Port Society News
New Bedford Port Society

News from the historic Seamen’s Bethel and Mariner’s Home in New Bedford, MA, USA

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Maritime Music in the Bethel with Tom Kastle and Jon Campbell on June 4, 2011

Please join us for a rare local appearance of maritime musicians Tom Kastle and Jon Campbell at the Seamen’s Bethel on June 4, 2011. Tom Kastle is a singer, songwriter, tall ship sailor, and teller of tales based in the Great Lakes who has traveled the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and the Pacific. He toured as half [...]

Baroque Concert to Raise Funds for Seamen’s Bethel Restoration

The Committee to Restore the Seamen’s Bethel will host the final program in its three-concert series at 3 p.m. April 3. In cooperation with the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, Héloïse Degrugillier, recorder, and Paul Cienniwa, harpsichord, will perform a concert of 17th- and 18th-century French baroque music to welcome spring. The New Bedford Port Society [...]

15th Moby-Dick Marathon this weekend!

The New Bedford Whaling Museum will be hosting it’s 15th Annual Moby-Dick Marathon this weekend.  If you want a real Melville experience stop by the Seamen’s Bethel, sit in his pew and listen to Chapters 7-9. Here’s what Beth Perdue wrote in today’s Standard Times: Being in the Bethel, the inspiration for this scene, is [...]

Christmas Candle Light Service, December 12th, 3:00 PM

The Board of Managers of the New Bedford Port Society cordially invite you to join us for a very special Christmas Candle Light Service on Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 3:00 PM at the Seamen’s Bethel, 15 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford, MA. Rev. Kenneth MacMillen, St. Paul’s United Methodist Church presiding. Organist: Frank Mederios [...]

“A Celtic Christmas” with Robbie O’Connell and Aoife Clancy

The Ladies Branch and the Board of Managers of the New Bedford Port Society invite you to the Seamen’s Bethel on the evening of December 21, 2010, the Winter Solstice, for the second event of the Concert Series for the Seamen’s Bethel Restoration Project. One hundred (100) percent of the proceeds received from this concert [...]

Dillon & Crooks present an evening of traditional maritime song, story and tales of the Port of New Bedford

The Ladies Branch and Board of Managers of the New Bedford Port Society are pleased to invite you to join us on Thursday , October 21 at 7 PM for “an evening of traditional maritime song, story and tales of the Port of New Bedford” with Dillon Bustin and the Rum-Soaked Crooks. This will be [...]

The Concert Series for the Seamen’s Bethel Restoration Project

The Ladies Branch of the New Bedford Port Society in partnership with the Board of Managers is pleased to announce The Concert Series for the Seamen’s Bethel Restoration Project. Join with us to enjoy unique musical programs in the intimate setting of the Seamen’s Bethel to support the building’s restoration fund. All of the musicians [...]

2010 Fishermen’s Memorial Service

At 9:30 a.m. on Monday, May 31st, 2010,  a procession will commence at the Seamen’s Bethel, 15 Johnny Cake Hill, in the heart of the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park and proceed down Union Street and onto Fishermen’s Wharf. The procession will be lead by an antique pump organ carried in a wheelbarrow from [...]

2009 Memorial Day Service: Remembering Those Who Have Gone Down To The Sea In Ships

For the past 62 years, the New Bedford Port Society has held their annual Memorial Day Service to recognize all of the brave mariners who sailed out of New Bedford and lost their lives at sea. Here’s a short video of the ceremony that took place on Monday, May 25, 2009.