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Casting A Wider Net showcases the stories of Cape Verdean, Vietnamese, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Guatemalan, and Salvadoran members of New Bedford’s working waterfront in their own words. The exhibit is the culmination of the Casting A Wider Net community oral history project which was developed to collect and share stories of communities of color that have been and continue to be an integral part of New Bedford’s commercial fishing industry. The resulting photographs, recordings, and transcripts will become part of the Center’s archive and the NOAA Voices web-based archive and are the basis for the exhibit. Learn more about the project here.
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.
Seven of the people whose stories are featured in the exhibit are Cape Verdean and we are particularly excited to bring this exhibit to the heart of New Bedford’s Cape Verdean community this summer as part of the 50th anniversary of Cape Verdean Independence. The exhibit can be viewed at the Vets during open hours on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (after 5pm) and on other days by appointment. Contact Lee Andrews at 508-612-9286 for more information. To arrange a youth group visit, contact Joe Ritter at programs@fishingheritagecenter.org.
Check out what people are saying about the exhibit on our Press Page!
