NEW BEDFORD — Herman Melville’s life-size statue will adorn the grounds of New Bedford’s historic Seamen’s Bethel where the author stopped before going out to sea, and which was the ...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WPRI) — New Bedford’s latest piece of public art will honor its legacy as the Whaling City: a statue of “Moby-Dick” author Herman Melville. The city kicked off its annu ...

She also applauded the removal of the statue of another racist, but less widely-known, figure from America’s history. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Nathan Bedford Forrest was a ...