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Walking Tour: In the Footsteps of Douglass and Melville
September 20 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT
FreeJoin ranger Rufai walking in the footsteps of these great eighteenth century writers.
The tour starts at the park’s visitor center on 33 William Street, New Bedford, MA
Both Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville were in New Bedford in 1840.
Douglass once claims “I was now living in a new world. [I] was wide awake to its advantages.”
Melville also once claim “”The town itself is perhaps the dearest place to live in, in all New England … nowhere in all America will you find more patrician-like houses, parks and gardens more opulent, than in New Bedford…all these brave houses and flowery gardens came from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. One and all, they were harpooned and dragged up hither from the bottom of the sea.”
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