tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14052673973066204232024-03-05T08:12:26.333-08:00New Bedford, America's Maritime CityBridgewater State University Geography local travel course. August 2022James Hayes-Bohananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405267397306620423.post-31591266305425419552022-12-28T09:53:00.001-08:002022-12-28T09:53:32.684-08:00Summer 2023 is on!<p>We will be offering the class once again in 2023. I'll be posting more detail later, but for now, please save the dates, and browse all the previous entries for some insight into what we will be doing.</p><p>The class is offered Monday July 17 through Friday July 28, every day except the weekend. It is scheduled 9am to noon. Allow about 20-30 extra minutes for travel to and from designated parking, to be announced later.</p>James Hayes-Bohananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405267397306620423.post-51448169753392101392022-06-19T12:41:00.003-07:002022-06-19T12:41:32.977-07:00Topics<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Geography is a discipline that is all about connections and about the many facets that make places what they are. For this New Bedford course, we are working with various local experts to explore many of its facets. Major topics include:</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Indigenous land and people: Wampanoag</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Whaling heritage and whaleboat rowing</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">African-American heritage</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Portuguese heritage</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Manufacturing </span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">New Bedford as a Gateway City</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Redevelopment of old mills</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Modern fisheries</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Renewable energy: maritime wind; climate resilience </span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Public housing</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Politics and civic engagement</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">and of course: <b>FOOD! </b></span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As we confirm partner participation, I will add links to most of these topics.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It is my intention to help students think creatively about all of the other places they know as a result of looking at this one from many perspectives.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF-I-FelP1V4qmv3uwoa1ipgEjdCsrN4hSYq89PEyLFi41q_83NpSEQPNLYBQgw0tYuJBTF4ZwtvJy8LOjIIAmvNyI4Ejmj76UIg7jE8dlUt3AW5QrsVEW2aL1tbAudOekJmC_7VM4pNbcZzZGl2zC1xRW4kO1Kob8lnfqkfNHtDXNGn3o28UlGSm-/s1200/blackhistory-54thregiment.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1200" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF-I-FelP1V4qmv3uwoa1ipgEjdCsrN4hSYq89PEyLFi41q_83NpSEQPNLYBQgw0tYuJBTF4ZwtvJy8LOjIIAmvNyI4Ejmj76UIg7jE8dlUt3AW5QrsVEW2aL1tbAudOekJmC_7VM4pNbcZzZGl2zC1xRW4kO1Kob8lnfqkfNHtDXNGn3o28UlGSm-/w640-h374/blackhistory-54thregiment.webp" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption">54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry mural on William Street. Image: NPS<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>James Hayes-Bohananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405267397306620423.post-15376055259908808812022-06-19T12:22:00.001-07:002022-06-19T12:22:14.550-07:00Gateway City Jingle<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Not only does this course have a great location, a van, and many interesting partners, it has a catchy tune!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DdzQ3oww3t4" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Please share with potential students -- graduate or undergraduate. This could be a perfect experience for in-service teachers needing credits or for area students home for the summer. Our credits transfer easily to most other institutions.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://bridgew.edu/summer">https://bridgew.edu/summer</a></span></b></p><p><br /></p>James Hayes-Bohananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405267397306620423.post-91854490474455318882022-04-06T10:33:00.004-07:002022-04-06T10:51:09.287-07:00Food Tour!<p><b>"You really got to look at New Bedford with different eyes. The New Bedford you're telling me about is not the New Bedford I'm seeing."</b></p><p>This excerpt from the article cited below is a great summary of how I think about New New Bedford -- and other gateway cities in Massachusetts. They are, generally speaking, not what people think they are! This course in general -- and the food tour in particular -- aim to help people see the city in a lot of new ways. This is as important for people who have never been to the city as it is for people who have never lived anywhere else!</p><p>The summer course as a whole is all about partnerships -- students will encounter a different facet of the city every day, all with the help of local experts. Those experts will include one of the city's newest companies: New Bedford Food Tours. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3S7_oEZerUo9xkFq71RFc4c9D1-ufiJl2UmORs7sASoUx8p68oUnADAgEArGr_Wnm6eYiGzGN3pdj1M0HzTw_Zd8-LmQoGJYarDo7KF--uUe1uzviJNY5BW5JLIrPupSvq7SuNMwo7pLmlkK4CRxB7nAtv1Gv1f702XTYiG8hUM9DMB_g_PZSuhNN" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="1320" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3S7_oEZerUo9xkFq71RFc4c9D1-ufiJl2UmORs7sASoUx8p68oUnADAgEArGr_Wnm6eYiGzGN3pdj1M0HzTw_Zd8-LmQoGJYarDo7KF--uUe1uzviJNY5BW5JLIrPupSvq7SuNMwo7pLmlkK4CRxB7nAtv1Gv1f702XTYiG8hUM9DMB_g_PZSuhNN=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pam Shwartz and wife Sara Gonzalez look on as Leilani Gocalves <br />serves them breakfast at Izzy's Restaurant on Spring Street.<br />Photo: New Bedford's legendary Peter Pereira </td></tr></tbody></table><p>As local journalist Seth Chitwood explains in a recent profile of the owners, <b><a href="https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/lifestyle/food/2022/04/06/new-bedford-food-tour-launch-june-featuring-city-restaurants/7151969001/" target="_blank">There Is Something for Everyone Here</a></b>. Co-founder Pamela Shwartz reached out to me to discuss collaboration; the course will include a special brunch version of the company's tours.</p><p>I know some great places to eat in New Bedford -- they know even more. Visit <b><a href="https://nbfoodtours.com/" target="_blank">NB Food Tours</a></b> for a <i>taste</i> of what is to come!</p><p>See the <b><a href="http://nbfortnight.blogspot.com/2022/03/summer-2022-new-bedford-field-course.html">main course entry</a></b> for details of the August 2022 class.</p>James Hayes-Bohananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405267397306620423.post-38166471286952203172022-03-22T20:42:00.003-07:002022-03-22T20:45:43.079-07:00Summer 2022: New Bedford Field CourseIn geography, I like to say, the real world is a big part of what we do. This course will be a great example!<div><br /></div><div>In the geography classroom -- <b><a href="https://www.bridgew.edu/stories/2020/connection-remains" target="_blank">and even in the Zoom classroom</a></b> -- I like helping students make connections that will help them understand that world in new ways. But nothing compares to being out in that world with students, whether it is walking inside a (mildly) <b><a href="https://www.environmentalgeography.net/2012/05/line-of-fire.html" target="_blank">active volcano</a></b>, in <b><a href="https://www.environmentalgeography.net/2020/01/thalweg-travelers.html">a dugout canoe on the Caribbean coast</a></b> or <b><a href="https://bsc-geography.blogspot.com/search?q=humphy" target="_blank">riding in a van to Cape Cod</a></b>. </div><div><br /></div><div>I have brought that joy of exploration to Discovering Brockton, <b><a href="https://www.bridgew.edu/news-events/city-champions" target="_blank">a first-year seminar that has introduced a lot of students to geographic thinking</a></b>. Because that course is available only to first-year students, I have been looking for a way to bring a similar experience to a wider audience. </div><div><br /></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDPt3ZALt2mFz0GuZ2kgAAh5F7YM3J-1XhGAYgXTKWSEX5BJB1EkvqYL5TKyTrYeA_f3BFXeL2FVSzSW-xfvsiHCypXWEgzixiRyKVKo2oR7Rl4bTydE7cGsIAIhxeUF56lmRo8CeEHaKllXjxmwlorE15Cu8bVz0KRTv1J9JYgAeY1BMq_LS7lLpA" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="797" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDPt3ZALt2mFz0GuZ2kgAAh5F7YM3J-1XhGAYgXTKWSEX5BJB1EkvqYL5TKyTrYeA_f3BFXeL2FVSzSW-xfvsiHCypXWEgzixiRyKVKo2oR7Rl4bTydE7cGsIAIhxeUF56lmRo8CeEHaKllXjxmwlorE15Cu8bVz0KRTv1J9JYgAeY1BMq_LS7lLpA=w265-h320" width="265" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Working Waterfront</td></tr></tbody></table>Thus was the summer course New Bedford: Maritime City born! We will spend ten mornings learning about this fascinating city through walking tours, windshield surveys (what geographers call driving around while talking about a place), conversations with local experts, time on the water, food, and of course <b><a href="http://geocafes.blogspot.com/">coffee</a></b>! </div><div><br /></div><div><b style="color: #080808; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;">Details</b></div><div><br /></div><div>This course meets every week day during the first two weeks of August, 2022. Students can park at the New Bedford Airport, where we will start each day at 8:30 a.m. sharp with a van ride from the airport through a different part of the city. </div><div><br /></div><div>Bring a travel mug if you want coffee for the ride -- I will make some for the class every morning. The morning will be spent on some combination of the activities described above. We will return to the airport at 12:30, with light reading or writing assignments for the next day. </div><div><br /></div><div>This course is available for graduate credit; additional scholarly work will be planned with each graduate student in accordance with their academic and professional goals. In-service teacher may elect to develop lesson plans, for example. </div><div><br /></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #080808; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><b>Tuition and all fees: $1,289.75 See <a href="https://www.bridgew.edu/ccs/summer" target="_blank">BSU Summer for registration and payment details</a>.</b></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #080808; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #080808; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><b>GEOG 296 / GEOG 520 New Bedford: Maritime City</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div>A schedule of activities will be described in a separate post as the summer progresses. Meanwhile, earlier posts to this blog include geographic insights about New Bedford that I have been accumulating since we first proposed this course a few years ago. Browse prior posts to get a sense of the city as I tend to think about it.</div><div><br /></div></div>James Hayes-Bohananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405267397306620423.post-58233002212192383322022-01-21T08:07:00.006-08:002022-03-22T18:36:21.157-07:00Maritime CIty: Big Energy<p>See the <b><a href="https://www.environmentalgeography.net/2022/01/low-tide-high-wind.html" target="_blank">Low Tide, High Wind</a></b> post on my main Environmental Geography blog for news that will be part of this course: New Bedford has become the staging area for the biggest wind-energy project in the USA!</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHjI7MR1FLgxm9PtkztZITfd36JwBJLVFlHz5V3y9i7vV8G6fTwpJTFUSSnAZcxmZqMqHj9_8T7p1-ZrplEiHgjzMPITQjVFQfqq-inozqdniV2D8rStaXdzYeJYlcticOJis7cpCa7rX_tqwfX5s6MQO3pJc4AxWGkywXbJlz12aJFNn5RRpckB1L=s800" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="605" data-original-width="800" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHjI7MR1FLgxm9PtkztZITfd36JwBJLVFlHz5V3y9i7vV8G6fTwpJTFUSSnAZcxmZqMqHj9_8T7p1-ZrplEiHgjzMPITQjVFQfqq-inozqdniV2D8rStaXdzYeJYlcticOJis7cpCa7rX_tqwfX5s6MQO3pJc4AxWGkywXbJlz12aJFNn5RRpckB1L=w400-h303" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image: <b><a href="https://www.nationalfisherman.com/national-international/new-bedford-says-wind-boundary-changes-just-a-start" target="_blank">National Fisherman</a></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>James Hayes-Bohananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405267397306620423.post-10988572711190940352020-11-13T07:46:00.004-08:002021-01-23T05:45:39.540-08:00Online Field Course<p><b>Summer 2021: Explore New Bedford in an online field course. What is that? Good question.</b></p><p><i>July 5 to August 6 || Mon-Wed-Thur || 10am to noon via Zoom</i></p><p>In the Fall 2020 semester, I had to convert my honors first-year seminar Discovering Brockton to a fully online experience, even though <b><a href="https://www.bridgew.edu/news-events/city-champions" target="_blank">weekly visits to the city had been key to its success</a></b>. The success of the online version of the Brockton course has encouraged me to reconceive New Bedford: Maritime City as an online field course.</p><p>The star of the course will be the city itself, which we will explore over a five-week period using several tools, including <b><a href="https://youtu.be/j3GXZh83evs">windshield</a></b> and <b><a href="https://youtu.be/fQTbxU4-ZuA" target="_blank">sidewalk surveys</a></b>, Zoom meetings with special guest speakers representing many facets of the community members, and existing collections of audio, video, and photographic media.</p><p>The class will be fully online and partly synchronous, meaning that we expect to be online concurrently from 10am to noon each Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday during the second summer session of 2021 (July 5 through August 6), with the balance of learning time being at each student's convenience.</p><p>The course will be listed at <a href="https://www.bridgew.edu/ccs/summer" target="_blank"><b>BSU Summer</b></a> as GEOG 296 and GEOG 520 -- available for both undergraduate and graduate credit. It will be open both to BSU students and to those wishing to transfer credits elsewhere.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.whalingcityrowing.org/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmzYUSXk0zWVseAJjl0vB1ORIdXUoP30tGxq-cQXXhx8wpbV9y8g-eRqQtDLtUI2BK9POW1KEGY_2k58lTO_-JPsxFX0XNKWqB5oAfEIK6dT-o1-6DKo7KUY4D_ZzEInu0f1562N1cA4Y/w400-h400/nbwaterfront.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Course instructor (pink hat) on New Bedford's working<br /> waterfront with some <b><a href="http://www.whalingcityrowing.org/" target="_blank">whaleboating</a></b> friends.</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /><br /></p>James Hayes-Bohananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405267397306620423.post-35822092077831913812020-10-17T20:55:00.003-07:002020-11-13T07:49:14.608-08:00New Bedford Online (?) Summer 2020<p><b>UPDATE: Summer <a href="http://nbfortnight.blogspot.com/2020/11/online-field-course.html">2021 Online Field Course</a></b></p><p>We did not attempt to offer this course in the very uncertain summer of 2020. But we are making plans to offer it for undergraduate or graduate credit in Summer 2021. We have envisioned this as an entirely in-person class in the past, but we will be prepared to offer it partly or fully online in Summer 2021. </p><p>We invite in-service teachers in particular to have a conversation about how best to organize this course for what will remain uncertain times for teaching and learning.</p>James Hayes-Bohananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405267397306620423.post-79563782278089320772019-03-30T14:49:00.000-07:002019-03-31T02:15:11.161-07:00Study Tour is a VerbWhen we decided to offer a hands-on course about the geography of New Bedford for a second time, we considered reasons that it did not garner sufficient enrollment in previous years. Among them, we decided, was the choice of course number. As an experimental course, we had thought that the GEOG 400 Special Topics course was appropriate, but we decided that its high number might be off-putting, as it suggests prior coursework in geography. As we considered numbering at a more appropriate level, it occurred to us that GEOG 296 might be both more inviting and more descriptive. The course we envision is, after all, a sort of domestic study tour.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Although <i>most</i> of this course will take place on land, much of my own learning about New Bedford takes place on the water as an active member of both <b><a href="http://www.whalingcityrowing.org/">Whaling City Rowing</a></b> and the <b><a href="http://azoreanmaritime.org/">Azorean Maritime Heritage Society</a></b>.<br />
(Rowing with WCR in this May 2018 photo, I am the one in the <b><a href="https://www.buzzardsbayrowing.org/">pink hat</a></b>.)</td></tr>
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The term "study tour" usually describes short-term experiences in other countries. At Bridgewater State University, these are typically 10 to 20 days in length, led by a faculty member. The New Bedford Maritime City course is a similar length, but it does not involve airplanes, passports, or overnight stays. </div>
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Most of my study-tour experience has been in Nicaragua, where I have led (with the incredible assistance of local guides) 11 study tours and one non-credit tour. Well over 100 people have enjoyed this experience, many of them returning either with me or on their own. In the process of leading this course -- plus one in Cabo Verde -- I have decided that I <i>really</i> like this format and I know how to make it both an effective and enjoyable learning experience.</div>
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The characteristics of a study tour (aka travel course) that will be part of the New Bedford course include:</div>
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<li>There will be a fee beyond tuition, though in this course it is much less than in a travel course. The fee covers admission to some facilities and some snacks.</li>
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This course is also listed as GEOG 520, so that in-service teachers or others seeking graduate credits can benefit from the experience. Such participants will complete all of the activities required of undergraduates, plus a research or curriculum project that will help them to meet professional goals. These projects will be agreed upon in individual consultation with me prior to the start of the course.</div>
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James Hayes-Bohananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405267397306620423.post-57565787935190649872019-03-15T15:47:00.001-07:002019-03-15T15:47:47.009-07:00Why Teach New Bedford?Shortest answer: The city will teach itself.<br />
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By this I mean that for geographers, a place is a text and geographic learning occurs by approaching that text with curiosity and humility. For the summer course I am offering in New Bedford, I will serve simply as an example of a geography learner and as a bridge to this fascinating city.<br />
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We will not, however, simply be wandering around asking questions -- although we will be doing some of that (known professionally as "walking tours" and "windshield surveys"). Rather, we will visit one or two of the city's institutions each day, with specific questions in mind. I have the great fortune of being a member of several associations in the city, and of having friends and acquaintances in quite a few of its companies, departments, and organizations.<br />
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These connections will be our real bridges to Whaling City!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The New Bedford-Fairhaven Bridge will be both a tangible part of the course -- I pass over it and under it several times a week -- and a metaphor for my approach to the bridge. The anchor is just a bonus. I took the photo on Pi Day 2018 from the front of Fathoms, one of many local restaurants that thrives on New Bedford's <b><a href="https://www.southcoasttoday.com/news/20190315/international-buyers-find-world-renowned-seafood-in-new-bedford">globally important seafood industry</a></b>.</td></tr>
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All of the forgoing sidesteps the question that opens this post: why teach about New Bedford?<br />
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I have thought about this for years, of course, but more intensely since a brief conversation with a fellow <b><a href="http://www.whalingcityrowing.org/">whaleboat rower</a></b> yesterday morning. Returning to the marina as the dawn broke over New Bedford (rowers are extreme morning people), we were admiring the view of the gleaming waterfront.<br />
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She mentioned a photo that she has on her office computer, showing a scene much like that we were looking at, but in even more dramatic light. A coworker asked her if it was of San Diego and she replied that no, it was New Bedford. He was dismissive, despite the photographic evidence and despite the fact that he is from Lowell, another of Massachusetts' underrated <b><a href="https://massinc.org/our-work/policy-center/gateway-cities/about-the-gateway-cities/">gateway cities</a></b>. These are the cities that house 1 in 7 Massachusetts residents and a slightly higher proportion of its employment. They do have lower income and higher crime rates than the state average, but the pathologies of gateway cities are exaggerated in the lens of television news, and people from both smaller towns and larger cities tend to miss much of what the "second-tier" population centers have to offer.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I took this 5:30am photo of the New Bedford waterfront from Pope's Island Marina, in the first few minutes of summer, 2016. It was this or a very similar photo that garnered a surprised reaction from my fellow rower's officemate. And views like this remind me of the loan officer in nearby Bridgewater who told me New Bedford is not near the water.</td></tr>
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I have found it very rewarding to explore the city of Brockton with a several first-year seminar classes, and will be doing so again in the fall of 2019. When I learned of the chance to offer a summer course over a two-week series of extended afternoon sessions, it took me about two minutes to decide that an exploration of Whaling City was in order.<br />
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Who is my target audience? Simply: everyone.. This is a 200-level class open to all, but I can also offer it as a 500-level graduate course by tailoring extra assignments to the needs of individual students. I hope that this will include classroom teachers from gateway cities and small towns alike. I hope to have at least a few people who already know New Bedford well (they will gain from the geographic perspective) and some who arrive with little real knowledge of the city. I look forward to bringing all such learners around to the remarkable constellation of contacts we have cultivated in this Maritime City.<br />
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Much more about this city from my point of view can be found on this blog; details about registration are at <b><a href="https://www.bridgew.edu/summer">BSU Summer</a></b>.<br />
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<br />James Hayes-Bohananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405267397306620423.post-21595663748920878832019-02-13T06:41:00.001-08:002019-02-13T06:42:49.644-08:00New Bedford: America's Maritime CityNew Bedford Fortnight will be on the <b><a href="https://www.bridgew.edu/ccs/summer">BSU Summer schedule in 2019</a></b> under a new name: America's Maritime City (registration opens March 11). We realized that the theme of the course might make for a better title than the length of the course -- especially since "fortnight" is a term that has become rather too obscure. The idea remains the same, however: spend two weeks exploring the geography of a most remarkable city!<br />
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GEOG 296 is a local study tour that will meet every weekday afternoon for two weeks, June 3 to June 14, 2019. Class will begin and end at a local parking lot, so that I can take students by van to each day's destinations. Meeting for four hours each day, we will have time for guided tours and lectures at many of the city's leading institutions. We will also have time for walking tours in some of its most fascinating neighborhoods. </div>
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GEOG 296 is a 3-credit course that is available to any BSU student. Credits transfer easily, so students from other universities -- including students who are back home for the summer from schools elsewhere. Because of the variety of perspectives that will be included in this course, it will have something to offer students from other places as well as lifelong New Bedford residents. </div>
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The central theme of the course is the way New Bedford has been able to harness its historic and cultural heritage to promote its economic and social development. We will learn about New Bedford from the point of view of languages, food, and music as well as whaling, fishing, and manufacturing. We will also explore its important place in African American history and the geography of immigration. We also have some excellent opportunities to explore New Bedford's physical and environmental geography, and to get out on the water.</div>
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<b>Where's Hayes-Boh? </b>Although your professor has sailed on the boat shown in this article, he is not in the photo. He is, however, in the photo used as the overall blog banner at the top of the screen. Can you spot him?</div>
James Hayes-Bohananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405267397306620423.post-25600164708141490392017-12-15T15:27:00.001-08:002017-12-16T05:06:42.762-08:00Harbor Forecasts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
As I write this, the screenshot below reflects current conditions in <b><a href="http://ma.usharbors.com/harbor-guide/new-bedford/weather">New Bedford Harbor</a></b>, as reported on the very useful web site <a href="http://ma.usharbors.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">U.S. Harbors</a>, which provides similar information -- and much more -- for coastal communities throughout the United States. For each port, the site assembles real-time data with general ten-day forecasts and hourly, detailed 48-hour forecasts.</div>
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In our <b><a href="http://nbfortnight.blogspot.com/2016/09/welcome-to-new-bedford-fortnight.html">New Bedford Fortnight course</a></b>, we will learn a lot about the geographies of the historic whaling trade, including the biogeography of whales, the migration patterns of those who pursued them, and the influence of the whale trade on the economic geography, urban landscape and demography of New Bedford.<br />
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We will also learn about some aspects of the physical geography of New Bedford through the lens of the whaleboat hobby and sport that is increasingly popular in the city. In fact, much of what I know about the city has been learned in modern replicas of the historic Azorean and Yankee whaleboats, as I am an active member of both of the city's clubs - the <b><a href="http://azoreanmaritime.org/">Azorean Maritime Heritage Society</a></b> and <b><a href="http://www.whalingcityrowing.org/">Whaling City Rowing</a></b>. I also learn from occasional involvement with the <a href="http://www.buzzardsbayrowing.org/" style="font-weight: bold;">Buzzard's Bay Rowing Club</a> in nearby Fairhaven, whose members row on the same waters. All three clubs interact frequently with the city's <a href="https://www.whalingmuseum.org/"><b>Whaling Museum</b></a>, of which I am also a member.<br />
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Members of all three clubs consult weather and tide charts to plan routine rowing events and special events including races and excursions. Rowing within the dynamic harbor environment requires planning routes according to wind and tide, as well as seasonal variation in the traffic of commercial ships and pleasure craft. Rowing captains consider the experience of crews and expected wind speeed when determining the safety of a planned row; individual rowers will consult the forecast when planning what to wear, especially during the colder months.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our summer course will include some whaleboat demonstrations, but there will be no snow on the oars, as in this photo of pre-dawn rowing on December 14, 2018. Photo credit: Cyn Spence. I am the rower in the striped shirt.</td></tr>
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My main blog -- <i>Environmental Geography</i> -- includes three relevant articles from the early days of my harbor learning in 2012. The first -- <b><a href="http://environmentalgeography.blogspot.com/2012/11/harbor-learning.html">Harbor Learning</a></b> -- describes the use of weather forecasts in a bit more detail. <a href="http://environmentalgeography.blogspot.com/2012/12/rowing-and-rocket-science.html" style="font-weight: bold;">Rowing and Rocket Science</a> explains how some of us use geotechnologies during the rowing itself, and the convergence of many technologies that we have come to take for granted in smartphones. More broadly, <b><a href="http://environmentalgeography.blogspot.com/2012/11/seaside-changes.html">Seaside Changes</a></b> points to some reporting that was then being done on the changing geographies of New Bedford and many similar cities in New England -- changes that are the inspiration for this special summer course.James Hayes-Bohananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405267397306620423.post-76096315777395480202017-11-21T05:37:00.000-08:002017-11-21T05:37:42.247-08:00A Avenida<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Acushnet is the name of a rural town just to the east and north of New Bedford. It is also the name of an avenue, often known simply as "The Avenue." That would be "A Avenida" in Portuguese, the most prominent of several languages one can hear in this vibrant neighborhood -- perhaps the most diverse locale in one of the most diverse cities in the most diverse country on the planet. In other words, a must-visit place for geographers.<br />
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So on August 29, 2017, I decided to take a bit of a stroll, to explore a half-mile or so of a street that I had mainly viewed from my car windows. (NOT that there is anything wrong with that -- geographers can learn a lot from a "windshield survey," which is our professional name for "driving around.")<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Calling Acushnet Avenue "The Ave" is not just something my local friends say. It is a recognized place, and people are proud of it.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The role of the arts -- especially public art such as this mural -- in social and economic development will be a central theme of the course.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The outward-facing parts of homes and businesses comprise what geographers call the vernacular landscape, and at times they can provide insight into what people consider most important about their own identities.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">To prepare for a special occasion, one does not go to the mall.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have not yet been to this café, but it is now on my list -- the Sunflower Cafe. In the Germanic languages, the flower is named for the sun. In the Romance languages, it is named for turning with the sun.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of the most successful businesses in Central America are fried-chicken restaurants, some of which have expanded to migrant communities in the United States. I have not yet figured out whether the connection in this case is one of ownership or one of symbolic reference.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Although its Lusophone connections are best known, Central American and other parts of the world are well represented in New Bedford's neighborhoods. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In many ways, communities are defined in very local institutions such as hairdressers and barbershops.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This city of migrants is full of symbolism that exhibits pride in places of origin and places of destination alike, as on this sign marking the approach to Madeira Field.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A friend who grew up in another part of the city ALWAYS brings something from this case if she is coming to dinner at our house.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This one is a bit of a trick -- it is not on Acushnet Avenue, nor is it in New Bedford. This is White Factory, on the Acushnet River in Acushnet, less than a mile from the eponymous Avenue. </td></tr>
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Students in the New Bedford Fortnight class will have opportunities to find much more in this and other neighborhoods throughout the 24 square miles of the Whaling City.<br />
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James Hayes-Bohananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405267397306620423.post-26862987313683478152017-10-21T10:41:00.001-07:002017-10-21T10:41:13.600-07:00Learning from Old Maps<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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During the New Bedford Fortnight class, we will spend most of our time in direct experience of the present-day city, its cultural landscape, communities, and institutions. It is a city with a rich history, however, and we will be studying that from a geographic perspective.<div>
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Among my favorite <b><a href="http://environmentalgeography.blogspot.com/2011/06/digging-back.html">tools for this kind of work</a></b> are very detailed <b><a href="http://www.sanborn.com/sanborn-fire-insurance-maps/">Sanborn fire insurance maps</a></b>, which we will be looking at in some detail, both at the New Bedford Public Library and through the digital version to which BSU's Maxwell Library subscribes. </div>
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I learned of the 1871 map shown above from a friend who has spent his whole life (so far) in the city and who will be part of this course. The map is stylistically similar to the Sanborn maps, but it is at a smaller scale that will be useful for our initial look at historic changes in the city and in adjacent areas of Fairhaven. The bridge connecting the two, for example, does not follow its current trajectory, nor does a broad boulevard separate downtown New Bedford from its working waterfront.</div>
James Hayes-Bohananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405267397306620423.post-49619345049219605822017-05-01T14:00:00.000-07:002017-04-15T06:46:48.793-07:00Welcome to New Bedford Fortnight<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">GEOG 400: New Bedford Fortnight</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Two Weeks in Whaling CIty</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Summer 2017 #NBfortnight</span><i><b>A Bridgewater State University Geography Course<br />Open to all -- matriculated and non-degree students alike<br />BSU students enrolled in <span style="color: #cc0000;">Commonwealth Honors</span> are welcome to propose an Honors Contract for this course, but must arrange for it before the course begins.</b></i><br />
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The sixth-largest city in Massachusetts is an ideal place to explore human and physical geography. Astride the land and the sea, New Bedford is connected by its fishing fleet to the North Atlantic and by its immigrant communities to much of the wider world. It is also increasingly important as a regional center for the visual and performing arts, and it is becoming a place where local, regional, and international artists draw audiences from throughout the region.<br />
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New Bedford is the site of a significant experiment in urban revitalization, in which the U.S. Park Service works closely with local institutions for two decades to connect creative economies to social, economic, and environmental challenges. This intensive course will meet in various locations throughout New Bedford each afternoon, drawing on the expertise of local institutions and community leaders as well as geographic field techniques to uncover the complexity of a city that is fostering change.<br />
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<i style="font-weight: bold;">James Hayes-Bohanan, Ph.D. -- Professor of Geography</i><br />
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<b><a href="http://webhost.bridgew.edu/jhayesboh/">Dr. Hayes-Bohanan</a></b> has taught at BSU since 1997. He
specializes in <b><a href="http://environmentalgeography.blogspot.com/">environmental geography</a></b>, the geography of Latin America, and the
<b><a href="http://webhost.bridgew.edu/jhayesboh/coffee/">geography of coffee</a></b>. He has enjoyed leading students on field-based learning
experiences throughout New England, as well as <b><a href="http://webhost.bridgew.edu/jhayesboh/coffee/matagalpa.html">Nicaragua</a></b>, <b><a href="http://webhost.bridgew.edu/jhayesboh/rondonia.htm">Brazil</a></b>, <b><a href="http://webhost.bridgew.edu/jhayesboh/cuba/cubamaps.html">Cuba</a></b>, and
<b><a href="http://webhost.bridgew.edu/jhayesboh/caboverde/">Cape Verde</a></b>. He is a member of the <b><a href="http://aagnestval.wpengine.com/">New England & St. Lawrence ValleyGeographical Society</a></b> and the New Bedford-based <b><a href="http://www.whalingcityrowing.org/">Whaling City Rowing</a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.whalingmuseum.org/">WhalingMuseum</a></b>, <b><a href="http://zeiterion.org/">Zeiterion Performing Arts Center</a></b>, <b><a href="http://azoreanmaritime.org/">Azorean Maritime Heritage Society</a></b>, <b><a href="http://fishingheritagecenter.org/">New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center</a></b>, <b><a href="http://www.ernestina.org/">Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey Association</a></b>, and <b><a href="https://www.bpzoo.org/">Buttonwood Park Zoo</a></b>. His family resides in both
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Course will run two consecutive weeks, M-F, 12:30-4:30 each afternoon, with on Thursday evening program required. Dates and details will be posted on this blog as plans are finalized.</span>James Hayes-Bohananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405267397306620423.post-51938542379064731002017-04-15T06:51:00.003-07:002017-04-15T06:51:43.314-07:00Crime Reporting and New Media<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Groundwork blog recently reported on a decision by <i>New Bedford Guide</i> -- a popular local Facebook page -- to <b><a href="https://newbedfordcoworking.com/new-bedford-guide-goes-cold-turkey/">stop using local crime stories as click-bait</a></b>. A lively discussion of this decision has already ensued.<br />
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Crime, the perceptions of crime, and the relationships between both and economic development will be important topics in our New Bedford Fortnight course.James Hayes-Bohananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405267397306620423.post-89612482937395678902017-03-07T11:52:00.002-08:002017-03-07T11:52:59.744-08:00A Look Around the Working WaterfrontWhile visiting the New Bedford Whaling Museum with my family today, I visited the observation deck for the first time. We have been museum members for a couple years and have lost count of our visits, so we are not sure why we had not stepped out onto this deck before.<br />
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I was inspired to record a brief panoramic video, of admittedly poor audio quality. It conveys a bit of New Bedford's grey-day persona, as I scan from the area upstream of the harbor along the Acushnet River, along the waterfront and ultimately toward the hurricane barrier.<br />
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I cut off my own first words, which were "New Bedford Fortnight.<br />
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Recently a friend shared this much earlier (1876) map of New Bedford, which shows that not only is it near the water, but that water is the whole point of New Bedford. It is a kind of lithograph that was common at the time, often used to promote cities by presenting idealized versions of them (see <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cities-Stone-Nineteenth-Century-Lithograph/dp/0883600242/">Cities on Stone</a></i> by John Reps for many great examples).<br /><div>
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So these maps may be imperfect records, but they do reveal a lot about nineteenth-century urban places. This one reveals the importance of both manufacturing and nautical trade at the time -- during the overlap between the age of sail and the age of steam. Note that a rather sophisticated draw bridge was already in place (as it is 140 years later), signaling the importance of both rail and sea in the development of the city.</div>
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During our New Bedford Fortnight class, we will have the chance to explore this and many other printed maps of the city and its surroundings; today's geography is very much shaped by geographies of the past!</div>
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A year later, the same banker facilitated a loan for a house in Fairhaven, without checking for its water proximity. Perhaps she knew about views like this one, which I took after a morning row in the harbor shared by these nautical municipalities.<div>
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James Hayes-Bohananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1405267397306620423.post-4103650739351478172016-11-14T08:06:00.000-08:002016-11-14T08:06:00.444-08:00Gateway CitiesMassachusetts has 351 cities and towns, the largest and best-known of course being Boston -- sometimes called the Hub of the Universe, and certainly the hub of New England. Most of the 351 are of similar spatial extent, but populations range from under 1,000 to about 20,000 for the vast majority.<br />
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About a dozen of the cities, though, are a bit bigger, and serve as local hubs. These are called Gateway Cities because each is the point of entry for a region of surrounding towns. In terms of cultural activities and economic activities, these gateways are crucial, and they have been the subject of considerable concern in recent years.<br />
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A new report from Rockland Trust Bank presents a bit of good news from each of 11 Gateway Cities. Problems persist in all of them, but positive, focused attention seems to be paying off as well. This is the context within which our New Bedford Fortnight learning will take place.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sponsored.bostonglobe.com/rocklandtrust/gateway-cities/">Gateway Cities Update</a></b> (November 2016)James Hayes-Bohananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908738448836082865noreply@blogger.com0