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Most of us know about New Bedford in Massachusetts as the number 1 fishing port in the United States.
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The family bearing this name in New Bedford, where it is one of nearly one hundred years' standing one, too, of prominence and wealth, is a branch of the ancient Knowles family of the town of Eastham, Barnstable county, this Commonwealth. Reference is made to some of the descendants of the brothers Thomas and James H. Knowles of Eastham, several of whose sons - at least two of the former and one of the latter - in their earlier manhood cast their lot with the people of New Bedford. The firm of Thomas Knowles & Co. for many years was one of the greatest engaged in the whale fishery business in New Bedford; and its members in turn have been succeeded in business by younger generations who have most worthily worn the family name and sustained its reputation; and today the name continues of record in and about the city of their birth connected prominently with many of the most extensive commercial establishments and banking institutions of the locality.
The Orpheum opened its doors to New Bedford on April 15, 1912, and proceeded to flourished throughout the decades that followed. Originally created by an organization known as The French Sharpshooters
This weekend was an exciting one to say the least. Since Kenzie was born we've been waiting to have some formal pictures by a professional photographer. We were lucky to find a great photographer in New Bedford, MA, Michelle Carr. You can see her website here: http://michellecarrphotography.com/main/index2.php Here is a picture of her awesome studio: New Bedford is about an hour from Boston so we made a day of it. Some may remember that New Bedford is the meeting place of Ishmael and Queequeg in "Moby-Dick". It served as one of the most important whaling ports in the world in the 1800s (courtesy of Wikipedia). The city had some really beautiful Victorian style homes that we had to take some pics of: We want to live in this house!! After the photo shoot, we went to a great seafood restaurant right on the "working dock" The view from our table! Can you say fresh caught Lobster mac and cheese! Spicy crabmeat avocado "bomb" Fantastic!! Kenzie got a little hungry too- Jennifer has become pretty creative with the subtle feeding technique (picture posted with her permission!!!!!) We also got to walk around downtown for the 2010 "Chowder Festival". We even got to check out the local Lobster races but unfortunately the Lobster we bet on didn't win! All of the walking and picture taking got Kenzie pretty tired. One last shot with Dad and then.................. Until next week, Ashley
New Bedford & Honolulu, 1875 For those of us who live on the Mainland, the words “king,” “palatial residence,” and “Hawaii” are likely to conjure up images of Elvis, Graceland, and the movie Blue Hawaii, before recalling that Hawaii once had a royal family. One of the kingdom’s last monarchs was David Kalākaua who ascended the throne in 1874. Kalākaua entered the history books again that year when he became the first foreign head of state to visit the United States. While the purpose of his trip was to sign a treaty of reciprocity, assuring Hawaii a duty-free market for its sugar and other goods, he used the opportunity to visit people and places in America that had had a long relationship with his country. Two menus dating from this period, one from a dinner with old contacts in the whaling industry, the other from a luncheon after he returned to Hawaii, reveal interesting details of his goodwill visit and daily life at home. On December 12, the new sovereign called on President Ulysses S. Grant at the White House, where he received a warm and cordial welcome, for Hawaii supported the Union during the Civil War, providing the North with sugar, cotton and rice that were then in short supply. With the state visit off to a good start, the king traveled to New York later that month, where he attended a performance of “The Gilded Age” by Mark Twain. (During a visit to the Hawaiian Islands eight years earlier, Twain met the future king who was then thirty, a year younger than the writer. Although he was favorably impressed by Kalākaua, Twain humorously described the islands as teeming with whalers, ship captains, and multitudes of cats, not to mention “cockroaches, and fleas, and lizards, and red ants, and scorpions, and spiders, and mosquitoes and missionaries.”1) Unable to join the king at the theater, Twain invited his old acquaintance to stop by Hartford, Connecticut for lunch the next day. However, the king’s heavy schedule precluded him from accepting this last-minute invitation, having already agreed to stop in New Haven on his way to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he would attend a dinner in his honor on New Years Day. New Bedford was the main port of the American whaling fleet. In the mid-1840s, when the industry was at its height, the vast majority of the 600 ships that arrived each year at Oahu and Maui came from the United States. Although whaling was now in decline, and San Francisco was becoming its primary base of operations, the royal visit caused a great stir of excitement in New Bedford. Many of the residents in this seafaring town retained fond memories of the Hawaiian Islands which they had visited for decades. Taking these feelings of nostalgia into account, the mayor held a reception at his office where “scores of hoary-headed veterans of the sea” were presented to the king who remembered some of them from years earlier. This reunion was followed by a dinner at 2:00 p.m. at the Parker House, a local hotel that bore no resemblance to the luxury establishment with that name in Boston. The menu below features standard dishes like boiled codfish, leg of mutton, and roast turkey with cranberry sauce. By 3:40 p.m., the honored guest was escorted to the train station and on his way to Boston, the port of embarkation since 1820 for many of the Protestant missionaries that went to Hawaii. Over time, these American proselytizers gained spiritual and political influence with the royal family who were educated in mission schools. ‘Iolani Palace (ca. 1975) After the trade treaty was signed in late January, King Kalākaua returned home to the ‘Iolani Palace, a one-story wooden building that was the grandest house in Honolulu.2 The luncheon menu below from December 1875 provides a fascinating glimpse of daily life at the official residence. Standing in marked contrast with the stark bill of fare in New Bedford, this fancy French menu is trimmed in paper lace and bedangled with a curious cotton ribbon, making it look more like it was made for a royal court in Europe than one in the subtropics, overlooking the white sand beaches of Waikiki. Nicknamed the “Merrie Monarch,” the king enjoyed the luxury and grandeur that went with his position, and why not, for as the comedian Mel Brooks once said, “It’s good to be king!” Still, Kalākaua believed he had a higher purpose, and today is remembered for creating a renewed sense of pride in the Hawaiian culture by reviving the hula, one of the ritual practices long suppressed by the missionaries. After his death in January 1891, he was succeeded by his sister, Queen Liliʻuokalani, the last monarch to reign over the Kingdom of Hawaii. Notes: 1. Mark Twain, “Scenes in Honolulu, No. 4,” Sacramento Union, 19 April 1866. 2. In the early 1880s, the termite-infested palace was torn down and replaced by a Victorian dollhouse three times larger with an inner structure made of brick.
Since the early settlement of Newport and Portsmouth, R. I., shortly after 1638, the Grinnells have been identified with Rhode Island and Massachusetts history, the earlier generations living largely in the towns of Newport county, R. I., and for the past hundred and more years branches of this southern Rhode Island family have been representative of the best citizenship in the old Massachusetts town of New Bedford. At New Bedford lived Capt. Cornelius Grinnell, a patriot of the Revolution, and long engaged in the merchant service, who married into the old historic Howland family, and one of whose sons, Joseph Grinnell, for almost a decade represented the New Bedford district in the United States Congress, and was long prominent as a merchant and manufacturer and banker of the town; and there lived the late Lawrence Grinnell, father of the late Frederick Grinnell, who so long was at the head of the Providence Steam and Gas Pipe Company and the General Eire Extinguisher Company, a man of genius in mechanical lines, whose inventions gave him distinction, and one of whose sons, Russell Grinnell, is at this time vice president of the General Fire Extinguisher Company. It is with this New Bedford branch of the Grinnell family this article deals.
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This weekend was an exciting one to say the least. Since Kenzie was born we've been waiting to have some formal pictures by a professional photographer. We were lucky to find a great photographer in New Bedford, MA, Michelle Carr. You can see her website here: http://michellecarrphotography.com/main/index2.php Here is a picture of her awesome studio: New Bedford is about an hour from Boston so we made a day of it. Some may remember that New Bedford is the meeting place of Ishmael and Queequeg in "Moby-Dick". It served as one of the most important whaling ports in the world in the 1800s (courtesy of Wikipedia). The city had some really beautiful Victorian style homes that we had to take some pics of: We want to live in this house!! After the photo shoot, we went to a great seafood restaurant right on the "working dock" The view from our table! Can you say fresh caught Lobster mac and cheese! Spicy crabmeat avocado "bomb" Fantastic!! Kenzie got a little hungry too- Jennifer has become pretty creative with the subtle feeding technique (picture posted with her permission!!!!!) We also got to walk around downtown for the 2010 "Chowder Festival". We even got to check out the local Lobster races but unfortunately the Lobster we bet on didn't win! All of the walking and picture taking got Kenzie pretty tired. One last shot with Dad and then.................. Until next week, Ashley
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Return to our hostess.Gale, here! This meme is always fun to share about places you re recently been and then read about new venues you may get to visit some day,.. Last week I shared about the Museum of Fine Art in Boston. and a little about our failed attempt at the beach house in southern Massachusetts.... which I will write more about the area this morning. Now I preface my post by saying our trip failed due to purely circumstances out of any one's control.... nature got the best of us..... well, actually, a critter choose our week to wander under the beach house and die..... need I say more! But the worst part of that was having to leave such a wonderful area.. we all had such high hopes for our beach vacation. Our spot was West Island off the Fairhaven peninsula very near New Bedford, and across Buzzard Bay from Martha's Vineyard.... the location was gorgeous, off the beaten path...all of the properties around us were very nice and renters and vacationers were having a grand time upon our arrival late last Saturday..As you can see it is purely natural with private homes... no commercialization whatever... well, except for a very small general store, that is so noncommercial my son- in - law drove right past it when he went to by ice.. There you can see the small community on West Island and the causeway that leads back to Fairhaven. This very comfortable private home was new to the air b and b listing and was perfect for my hubby and I and our daughter's small family... the huge backyard was perfect for our 2 year old granddaughter to run around and be pulled in her wagon... and it led right down to the ocean front.... We stopped over at New Bedford to pick up dinner on our way to the island... and there are so many fabulous sites to enjoy there. The historical section is very quaint with cobbled streets... and I could easily imagine Captain Ahab sporting his gear as we sought members for his crew, Queequeg and Ishmael.. The Whaling Museum there is listed as just one of the great reasons to visit there. Moby Dick is well loved there as seen in this advertisement Each year the Whaling Museum celebrates their Annual Moby-Dick Marathon with a 25-hour, nonstop reading of the book by over 150 readers. The marathon takes place each January, and is complemented by special exhibits, artwork, slideshows, ticketed buffet dinner, cash bar, lectures, a Q&A and other events and activities. Prizes are given away and the event is accompanied by a live video feed via livestream. You can read about the 16th Annual Moby-Dick Marathon’s fun filled activities, photos, and video at 16th Annual Moby-Dick Marathon. I love the children's version and read it to my classes each year! Even though West Island seems a bit remote a quick drive to Fairhaven's town center will provide everything you could possibly need.. but the good Lord will provide the rest and I do mean "rest": The soft breezes wafting in off the bay was fabulous as your sip your coffee or iced tea or whatever... on that most comfy deck... It's a great place to read that book you've been wanting to but just couldnt find the time.... the shore is spectacular and so surprising you never know what you might find each day.. one day all sand... the next lovely pebbles, another seaweed and shells.... and it is marvelous to just relax and watch the activity in the bay.... and there are so few places where you can enjoy a sunset like this on the east coast. And the quiet of the peaceful nights provided the best night's sleep one can ever want on a dream vacation!
New Bedford & Honolulu, 1875 For those of us who live on the Mainland, the words “king,” “palatial residence,” and “Hawaii” are likely to conjure up images of Elvis, Graceland, and the movie Blue Hawaii, before recalling that Hawaii once had a royal family. One of the kingdom’s last monarchs was David Kalākaua who ascended the throne in 1874. Kalākaua entered the history books again that year when he became the first foreign head of state to visit the United States. While the purpose of his trip was to sign a treaty of reciprocity, assuring Hawaii a duty-free market for its sugar and other goods, he used the opportunity to visit people and places in America that had had a long relationship with his country. Two menus dating from this period, one from a dinner with old contacts in the whaling industry, the other from a luncheon after he returned to Hawaii, reveal interesting details of his goodwill visit and daily life at home. On December 12, the new sovereign called on President Ulysses S. Grant at the White House, where he received a warm and cordial welcome, for Hawaii supported the Union during the Civil War, providing the North with sugar, cotton and rice that were then in short supply. With the state visit off to a good start, the king traveled to New York later that month, where he attended a performance of “The Gilded Age” by Mark Twain. (During a visit to the Hawaiian Islands eight years earlier, Twain met the future king who was then thirty, a year younger than the writer. Although he was favorably impressed by Kalākaua, Twain humorously described the islands as teeming with whalers, ship captains, and multitudes of cats, not to mention “cockroaches, and fleas, and lizards, and red ants, and scorpions, and spiders, and mosquitoes and missionaries.”1) Unable to join the king at the theater, Twain invited his old acquaintance to stop by Hartford, Connecticut for lunch the next day. However, the king’s heavy schedule precluded him from accepting this last-minute invitation, having already agreed to stop in New Haven on his way to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he would attend a dinner in his honor on New Years Day. New Bedford was the main port of the American whaling fleet. In the mid-1840s, when the industry was at its height, the vast majority of the 600 ships that arrived each year at Oahu and Maui came from the United States. Although whaling was now in decline, and San Francisco was becoming its primary base of operations, the royal visit caused a great stir of excitement in New Bedford. Many of the residents in this seafaring town retained fond memories of the Hawaiian Islands which they had visited for decades. Taking these feelings of nostalgia into account, the mayor held a reception at his office where “scores of hoary-headed veterans of the sea” were presented to the king who remembered some of them from years earlier. This reunion was followed by a dinner at 2:00 p.m. at the Parker House, a local hotel that bore no resemblance to the luxury establishment with that name in Boston. The menu below features standard dishes like boiled codfish, leg of mutton, and roast turkey with cranberry sauce. By 3:40 p.m., the honored guest was escorted to the train station and on his way to Boston, the port of embarkation since 1820 for many of the Protestant missionaries that went to Hawaii. Over time, these American proselytizers gained spiritual and political influence with the royal family who were educated in mission schools. ‘Iolani Palace (ca. 1975) After the trade treaty was signed in late January, King Kalākaua returned home to the ‘Iolani Palace, a one-story wooden building that was the grandest house in Honolulu.2 The luncheon menu below from December 1875 provides a fascinating glimpse of daily life at the official residence. Standing in marked contrast with the stark bill of fare in New Bedford, this fancy French menu is trimmed in paper lace and bedangled with a curious cotton ribbon, making it look more like it was made for a royal court in Europe than one in the subtropics, overlooking the white sand beaches of Waikiki. Nicknamed the “Merrie Monarch,” the king enjoyed the luxury and grandeur that went with his position, and why not, for as the comedian Mel Brooks once said, “It’s good to be king!” Still, Kalākaua believed he had a higher purpose, and today is remembered for creating a renewed sense of pride in the Hawaiian culture by reviving the hula, one of the ritual practices long suppressed by the missionaries. After his death in January 1891, he was succeeded by his sister, Queen Liliʻuokalani, the last monarch to reign over the Kingdom of Hawaii. Notes: 1. Mark Twain, “Scenes in Honolulu, No. 4,” Sacramento Union, 19 April 1866. 2. In the early 1880s, the termite-infested palace was torn down and replaced by a Victorian dollhouse three times larger with an inner structure made of brick.
New Bedford was and is an epic city in every sense of the word -- something that cannot be said of many other prettier, more popular Coastal New England destinations -- and the very reason I love visiting.
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Among the most prominent law offices in southern Massachusetts is one which by lineal succession has existed for nearly, if not quite, a hundred years, and in which three generations of the Clifford family have been represented. The members of the Clifford family who have been such important factors in this old and prominent law firm came of a distinguished ancestry. The late John H. Clifford was a direct descendant in the eighth generation from George Clifford, who came with his wife Elizabeth and son John from Arnold village and parish, Nottinghamshire, England, to Boston in 1644.
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Note: Portions of this trip were sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Tourism. When I received the offer to spend a few days in New Bedford, MA I actually thought long and hard about it. I had lived about a half hour away from this Bristol County city, and had visited to go shop or visit
In the 1910s the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament was a parade followed by a few hours of festivities
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