Casting A Wider Net: A Community Oral History Project

Casting A Wider Net shares stories of communities of color that have been and continue to be an integral part of New Bedford’s commercial fishing industry.

The exhibit showcases videos, photographs, and quotes from the Casting A Wider Net oral history interviews as well as links to the full interview transcripts. Visitors have the opportunity to hear the voices of each person who was interviewed, view a scrapbook of photos narrators and their families, and can even write them a message in the exhibit guestbook.