The South Coast Insider - May 2023

“Good Health” Includes Mental Health

May is Mental Health Month.

At Prima CARE, your “health” is more than your physical health, but includes your mental health.

In every way possible, Prima CARE recognizes the importance of mental health issues and supports their diagnosis and treatment.

As much as your physical health, your mental well-being is our priority. It’s a reality of life.

On good days and rough days, Prima CARE is by your side.

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For further information, contact your Prima CARE Primary Care provider or seek help from the following agencies:

• Massachusetts Behavioral Health Help Line (BHHL) (833) 733-2445

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• Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: Dial 988

Shop small, shop local!

Why risk your health (and sanity) at crowded malls on Black Friday? Take advantage of incredible offerings in your own neighborhood on Small Business Saturday, November 28, throughout the South Coast. Check out sbsshopri. com for shop-and-stroll events in Rhode Island. For that special gift, support local craftsmen and artists by heading over to the Waterfire Arts Center in Providence to visit the safe outdoor pop-up markets (waterfire.org/art-mart). And on First Thursdays (November 5) you can “shop and dine local” in Barrington, Bristol, and Warren (discovernewport.org).

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Kick-off the holiday season at Frerichs Farm in Warren with “Girls Night Out” on November 6, 7 and 8 – buy your holiday trees, greenery, and gifts there, too (frerichsfarm.com). Then mark your calendar for the Newport Block Party & Holiday Stroll at Bowen’s Wharf on November 27 – you can watch the Illuminated Boat Parade while you shop and enjoy Caribbean music (bowenswharf.com).

It’s the thoughtful gifts that count

And if you can’t find gifts for all the special people in your life, consider buying gift cards to restaurants, shops, vineyards, special event venues, local farms, e-commerce websites, or grocery stores. Use mail-order services to deliver flowers, sweets, and specialty foods yearround to someone you want to thank or to express your appreciation.

May 2023 | Vol. 27 | No. 5

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THINGS TO DO

Take a Coastal Garden Tour of Little Compton, featuring seven private gardens, on June 17 from 10-4, rain or shine. Tickets are $40 and benefit local environmental and conservation programs. Learn more at littlecomptongardenclub.org.

MAKE THE MOST of May!

by Elizabeth Morse Read

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo, Mother’s Day, and Memorial Day in the great outdoors amidst all the flowers, café seating, food festivals, cultural events, road races, and music! We’re heading into another spectacular summer on the South Coast – so get out there and join in the fun!

Food, fairs, and festivals!

Don’t miss the free Community Block Party on May 20 at 45 Rock Street in Fall River! Food, music, games, family fun, and more (gfrREC.org)!

Buy your tickets early for the 2023 Asparagus Fest on May 7 at Four Town Farm in Seekonk (farmfreshri.org/ asparagus)!

Mark your calendars for the Wareham Oyster Festival on May 28 (warehamoyster.com)!

Get ready for the Buttonwood Park Zoo’s annual “Red, White and Brew” beer- and wine-tasting festival on May 19 in New Bedford (bpzoo.org)!

Taste your way through the historic

district of New Bedford with New Bedford Food Tours on a three-hour guided walking tour to sample local foods at five signature restaurants (nbbfoodtours. com)!

Show up hungry on May 21 for the annual Taste of South Coast festival on Pier 3 in New Bedford, sponsored by the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick (tasteofsouthcoast. com)!

Plan ahead for the seventh annual Newport Oyster and Chowder Festival at Bowen’s Wharf in Newport on May 20-21 (bowenswharf.com).

Check out the Cherry Blossom Festival at the Whitfield-Manjiro Friendship House in Fairhaven on May 7 (fairhaventours. com).

Take the family to the third annual We

HeART Fall River Festival on May 13 at Government Center, a free celebration of art, culture and community (vivafallriver. com)!

To market, to market

Don’t miss the Spring Heirloom Plant Sale May 20-21, 27-28 at the Plimoth Patuxet Museums in Plymouth to recreate your own herb, flower, and vegetable gardens of the 17th century (plimoth.org/events)!

Take the family to the Spring Crafts Fair & Food Truck Event on May 7 at Fall River’s Liberal Club (vivafallriver)!

Fairhaven’s Huttleston Market opens on May 20 on the high school grounds.

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Lectures, exhibits and special events

Enjoy free walking tours on AHA! Nights in New Bedford, May through September, led by the New Bedford Preservation Society – “Walkways: Exploring the People and Places of Historical New Bedford” (nbpreservationsociety.org).

Check out all the free creative arts and cultural events scheduled in May from Fall River to Wareham, part of the South Coast Spring Arts Festival (southcoastspringarts.org/2023)!

Enjoy a lunchtime solo concert of music, songs and stories with Irish harpist Aine Minogue on May 22 at the Marion Council on Aging (marionma. gov)!

Take a free tour of 30+ artist and artisan studios during Tour the Fall River Open Studios on May 12-13, part of the South Coast Arts Spring Festival (vivafallriver.com) (southcoastspringarts.org/2023)!

Visit the Whaling Museum in New Bedford through May 7 for the special exhibit exploring the Arctic world of polar bears (whalingmuseum.org)!

Pack a picnic and stroll through the daffodils and tulips at the whimsical Green Animals Topiary Gardens in Portsmouth (newportmansions.org)!

Visit the artists and artisans in their creative work-spaces on Hatch Street in New Bedford May 6-7 during the Spring Open Studio Tours (hatchstreetstudios. com).

Don’t miss the annual Kentucky Derby Day watch party on May 6 at Linden Place in Bristol (lindenplace.org)!

Register early for the Mother’s Day Tea on May 13 in the gardens of the RotchJones-Duff Museum in New Bedford (rjdmuseum.org)!

Check out the Friday afternoon movies at the Newport Public Library (newportpubliclibraryri.org)!

Quench your thirst for learning at the free monthly New Bedford Science Café lectures and discussions at The Last Round Bar & Grille (nbsciencecafe.com)!

Fun for the whole family

Take the family on an immersive

Join the Mattapoisett Woman’s Club for June in Bloom! This year’s biennial garden tour takes place on June 24 from 10-4. More than a half-dozen gardens will be on display, each having been selected from a variety of styles. Come admire and be inspired! Advance tickets go on sale on May 9 for $30. Learn more at mattapoisettwomansclub.org.

and…

Visit the Haskell Public Gardens for the spring plant sale! Get your thumb green on May 13 from 10-2 at 777 Shawmut Avenue in New Bedford. For more information visit thetrustees.org/place/ allen-c-haskell-public-gardens

Explore the outdoors!

Bring your binoculars for the special event with the Paskamansett Bird Club’s “Land and Sea” Walk May 20 at the Lloyd Center for the Environment in Dartmouth (lloydcenter.org)!

Find out what’s happening at the Audubon Nature Center and Aquarium in Bristol (asri.org)!

There’s always something going on at the Norman Bird Sanctuary in Middletown! Enjoy a family campout under the stars during the Flower Moon Sleepover Party May 5-6, go on a geology hike May 17, learn about mushroom cultivation May 26 (normanbirdsanctuary.org)!

Take a stroll through the urban greenspace of the Allen G. Haskell Public Gardens in New Bedford (thetrustees.org).

“Discover Buzzards Bay” offers an online portal with information about 100+ public places to walk, bird-watch, kayak/canoe, fish, snowshoe or cross-country ski (savebuzzardsbay.org/discover). You can find other outdoor recreation spots along the South Coast at thetrustees.org, exploreri. org, massaudubon.org, asri.org, riparks.com, or stateparks.com/ rhode_island.

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adventure back to prehistoric times at “Dinosaurs Among Us!” at Roger Williams Park in Providence through August 13, walking amidst sixty life-sized animatronic and interactive dinosaurs (rwpzoo.org)!

Go on a “Vineyard Voyage” with the Providence Riverboat Company –sample wine and food pairings while cruising through the city’s waterways (providenceriverboat.com) – or take a romantic gondola ride through downtown Providence (gondolari.com)! Or explore the waterways of Providence in a single or tandem kayak (providencekayak.com)! On rainy Wednesdays-Sundays, take the little ones to the Children’s Museum of Greater Fall River (cmgfr.org)!

Buy your tickets online for the planetarium shows on weekends and school vacations at the Museum of Natural History & Planetarium at Roger Williams Park in Providence (providence. gov/museum).

Take a walk through the past at the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park (nps.gov/nebe)!

Enjoy free family fun and entertainment on the second Thursday of the month at New Bedford’s AHA Nights – City Views is the May 11 theme (ahanewbedford.org)!

Classical acts

Listen to the Fall River Symphony Orchestra’s “Spring Concert” with

the South Coast Community Chorale on May 7 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Fall River, performing Mozart’s Requiem and The Pines of Rome (fallriversymphonyorchestra.org).

Newport Classical will present Mendelssohn and Bach with the Kenari Quartet on May 19 at the recital hall of Emmanuel Church in Newport (newportclassical.org/events)!

Listen to the Rhode Island Philharmonic perform “Verdi’s Requiem” on May 5-6 at The VETS in Providence. The Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Orchestra will perform their annual Spring Concert at The VETS on May 7 (riphil.org).

Enjoy the free annual Concert in the Garden at the Rotch-Jones-Duff Mansion in New Bedford on May 16, performed by New Bedford High School studentmusicians – jazz, classical, strings, and steel band (rjdmuseum.org)!

Head for the Zeiterion in downtown New Bedford to hear Konstantia Plays “The Emperor” presented by the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra on May 20 (zeiterion.org).

Don’t miss the Newport Contemporary Ballet’s performance of “Catch Fire!” including a reimagined “Firebird” at the WaterFire Arts Center in Providence May 18-20 (newportcontemporaryballet.org).

Don’t miss the Greater New Bedford Choral Society’s Spring Concert on May 7 at Grace Episcopal Church in New Bedford (gnbcs.org)!

Stop by the Four Corners Art Center in Tiverton to listen to chamber music performed by The Newport String Project on May 14 or to Americana music performed by The Whelks on May 20 (fourcornerarts.org)!

Mark your calendar for the Plymouth Philharmonic’s concert “Come Together: Music of the Beatles” May 20-21 at Memorial Hall in Plymouth (plymouthphil.org).

On the move again!

Sign up for the Providence Marathon and Half Marathon (and post-race festival) on May 7 (providencemarathon.com).

Register for the Cinco de Mayo 5K in Wareham on May 7 (southshorerace.com)!

Get Healthy! “Walk With a Doc” on Saturdays at Buttonwood Park Zoo, part of the New Bedford Wellness Initiative (nbewell.com).

Sign up now for the 30th Annual Buzzards Bay Swim on June 24 (savebuzzardsbay.org/discover/events)!

Fitness in Cushman Park in Fairhaven will return! Ten weeks of free outdoor classes in yoga or personal fitness starting in June (facebook.com/fitnessincushmanpark)!

Sounds of the South Coast

Head for Plymouth’s Pilgrim Memorial Hall to hear "One Night of Queen " May 5, "The Righteous Brothers" May 12, "Lewis Black: Off the Rails" May 13, Come "Together: Music of the Beatles" May 20-21, Cage Titans 59 May 27 (memorialhall.com).

All aboard!

Pack a picnic or enjoy the food trucks when you head for Soule Homestead in Middleborough for the start of their "Summer Concert Series" on May 13 (soulehomestead.org)!

Head for the Zeiterion in downtown New Bedford (zeiterion.org).

Head for The VETS in Providence to hear "The Temptations & The Four Tops" May 19, "Heather McMahan" May 20 (thevetsri.com)!

Bring your picnic basket to Running Brook Vineyard in Dartmouth for free live music every Saturday and Sunday year-round (runningbrookwine.com)!

Check out who’s performing in The Vault at the Greasy Luck Brew Pub in downtown New Bedford (vaultnb.com)!

Head for the Providence Performing Arts Center for the International Portuguese Music Awards on May 20, The Avett Brothers May 23 (ppaccri.org)!

Find out who’s on stage at the Spire Center for the Arts of Greater Plymouth! (spirecenter.org).

Don’t miss "Def Leopard" May 5, "Devoted 2 You" May 6, "Panorama" May 12, "Heartless" May 13, "60’s Pirate Radio Ship" May 19, "Beastie Ballz" May 20, "Wildside" May 26, "Echoes of Floyd" May 27, "LoVe SeXy" May 28 at The District Center for the Arts in Taunton (thedistrictcenterforarts.com)!

Head to the Narrows Center in Fall River (for schedule of events visit narrowscenter.com)!

All the world’s a stage

Celebrate Armed Forces Day and travel back to the sounds of WWII USO clubs for “Stars & Stripes: A Musical Salute to the Troops” performed by The Seaglass Theatre on May 20 at the First Congregational Church in Fairhaven (newbedfordcreative.org)!

Don’t miss The Wilbury Group’s performances of “Indecent” through May 7, “Goodnight Sweetheart Goodnight” May 25 to June 8 in Providence (thewilburygroup.org).

Discover the Barker Playhouse on Benefit Street in Providence, the oldest continuously-running little theatre in America! Don’t miss “Avenue Q” May 19-28 (playersri.org).

Show your support for the student-actors at the Greater New Bedford Vocational Technical High School by attending their performance of “9-5: The Musical” May 5-7 (newbedfordlight.com)!

Head for the Priscilla Beach Theatre in Plymouth, one of the oldest barn summer stock theatres in America! Plan ahead for “Singin’ in the Rain” May 5-13 (pbtheatre.org).

Mark your calendar to see “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” May 12-14, 19-21 at Your Theatre in New Bedford (yourtheatre.org)!

Enjoy dinner with your drama at the Newport Playhouse! (newportplayhouse.com)!

Buy tickets early to see “Sweeney Todd” May 25 to June 25 at Trinity Rep in Providence (trinityrep.com).

Why hassle with the bridges and the Cape traffic when you can head for State Pier in New Bedford to take a high-speed Seastreak Ferry to Martha’s Vineyard or Nantucket starting May 11 (seastreak.com) or else take the Cuttyhunk Ferry for a day-trip to Cuttyhunk year-round (cuttyhunkferryco.com)!

Let the whole family learn how to sail from US Sailingcertified instructors at New Bedford’s Community Boating Center (communityboating.org).

Take the Block Island Ferry from Newport starting in June (blockislandferry.com).

Learn how to sail, rent a boat or just enjoy watching the races at Sail Newport , Rhode Island’s public sailing center – don’t miss Ocean Race Newport May 13-21, Youth

Challenge June 10-11 or the 2023 Newport Regatta July 7 (sailnewport.com)!

Tour Narraganset Bay or Newport Harbor past lighthouses and mansions, or take a fast ferry to the Vineyard or Block Island, with Rhode Island Bay Cruises (rhodeislandbaycruises.com)!

Explore and enjoy all things water – swimming, sailing – at the Onset Bay Center (savebuzzardsbay.org/discover/activities)!

Take a sightseeing cruise of the Cape Cod Canal from Onset Town Pier with Hyline Cruises – check out the cocktail cruises, live music cruises and musical Bingo (hylinecruises.com)!

Head for the Herreshoff Maritime Museum in Bristol, home of the America’s Cup Hall of Fame, for would-be-sailors of all ages to learn how to sail and race (herreshoff.org)!

Saving the STEEPLES

by Lori Bradley

Fortunately, the South Coast is home to awe-inspiring architecture in St. Anne’s Church and Shrine in Fall River.

It is a magnificent example of Romanesque sacred architecture. There are only a few other churches sharing these rounded arches, thick walls, pillars, ambulatory aisles, and sculptural details inspired by medieval European sacred architecture.

French-Canadian immigrants paid for and built St. Anne’s Church out of blue Vermont granite intending it to be a lasting religious and social center for their community. Their labor in Fall River textile mills helped build the entire region. The loss of the local textile industry naturally resulted in reduced numbers of parishioners, but the Church still stands as tribute to immigrant history in America.

St. Anne’s Church and Shrine is

listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is considered a national shrine to the mother of Mary. The exterior of the Church features 115-foot-high bulbous bell towers atop two main turrets that are dramatically visible to anyone crossing the Braga bridge. The stunning cross-shaped Church was designed by architect Napoléon Bourassa of Quebec, and was supervised by Fall River architect Louis G. Destremps, a native of Quebec. St. Anne’s became the cultural and

religious center to Fall River’s FrenchCanadian Flint Village neighborhood, roughly bound by Watuppa Pond and Quarry Street. Destremps also designed the spectacular Notre Dame De Lourdes Church in Fall River which sadly burned to the ground in 1982.

Saving St. Anne’s

Today, St. Anne’s faces its own set of challenges. The upper church hasn’t been open to the public since 2015 because of the deteriorating condition

People periodically need to escape ordinary sights and daily struggles to experience the transcendent.

Photo by Frank Grace

The exterior of the Church features 115-foot-high bulbous bell towers atop two main turrets that are dramatically visible to anyone crossing the Braga bridge.

consumerism that involves demonstrations, sit-ins and, I kid you not because I’m afraid of them, a “Zombie Walk,” where volunteer zombies wander malls with blank stares and explain “Buy Nothing Day” to befuddled shoppers before, I assume, eating their flesh.

Visit St. Anne’s Shrine

St. Anne’s Shrine in the lower Church is now open to visitors Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. A Mass for Healing is offered monthly on the third Thursday of the month at the Shrine by Father Edward Murphy. The local Francophone Society has a quarterly Mass in the Shrine. The Mass is offered “en francais.” St. Anne’s Shrine events and dates are detailed on its Facebook page. For more informations or to donate visit st-annes-shrine.org

How are ya, what’s new, how’s it going? Say that and more on November 21, “National Hello Day,” created in the hopes that conflicts can be resolved through communication rather than the use of force, a lofty goal that, given there really has never been a time when there’s not war raging somewhere around the globe.

World Philosophy Day is an international day proclaimed by UNESCO comes into being every third Thursday of November. Or does it? Hmmm?

Silly as World Toilet Day on November 19 sounds, it is an actual United Nations observance day to tackle the global

of the structure. An initial inquiry into the cost of doing repairs enough to reopen is estimated at a minimum of $5 million to $13 million for a full renovation. While parishioners are supportive of the efforts, the project is daunting, and the church was threatened with closure and potential repurposing.

Fortunately, Fall River Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha and representatives of the recently organized St. Anne’s Preservation Society signed an agreement with the Fall River Diocese in 2019 to allow the Society a 10-year lease on the building and begin independent fundraising efforts to restore this important space.

Robert Gauvin is President of the St. Anne Shrine Preservation Society. On the St. Anne’s Shrine website, he details some of the work needed to renovate and fully reopen the Church which includes repairs to the slate roof to eliminate water leaks, repairs to the upper church plaster walls, maintaining and renewing the magnificent Casavant Organ, repairing and maintaining the physical plant, operating the Shrine Gift Shop, and expanding social media outreach. This daunting list of tasks is enthusiastically undertaken by Gauvin with a volunteer board of ten people.

Artistic architecture

The St. Anne’s upper and lower shrines are designed in the ambulatory

style of church architecture. This is a feature of Romanesque sacred architecture and unusual in North America. Common in France and Spain, ambulatory architecture welcomed the exhausted, faithful traveling on foot and horseback.

sanitation crisis because worldwide, 4.2 billion of us live without safe sanitation options. Think of that the next time you’re lucky enough to be relaxing with a magazine in a comfy loo.

Hungry? November is your month, with tasty days sprinkled throughout, odes to everything from banana pudding to vinegar and everything in between, including hot sauce, nachos, pickles, espresso, deviled eggs, French toast and more. Honoring all that grub makes perfect sense that November 15 is National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day.

In closing, and in observance of November being an election month, I’d like to add it is now National Impotency Month, which has nothing to do with the Republicans in Congress, much as it sounds like it should.

Visitors can gaze up into the rocky high reaches of the upper Church to feel the expansiveness of the universal spirit. For a more personal and intimate experience, visitors can then walk around the side of the Church and enter the lower Shrine. It’s housed in the basement of St. Anne’s and has dark wooden ceilings. The atmosphere is intimate, with individual stations for saints housing beautiful sacred sculpture. The light is dim and lit by dozens of flickering candles dedicated to individual saints.

Happy winter, people! All eight damn months of it.

Frank Grace, a renowned photographer who was born in Fall River, recently documented the St. Anne’s church architecture and donated the photographs to the Preservation Society to publicize the beauty of the interiors. As an artist, the experience of St. Anne’s Shrine had both aesthetic and emotional impact. “While my intention was to photograph the main Church,” Grace said, “I knew about the Shrine but really was not prepared for what is down there. The artistry of the statues, sculptures, stained glass windows, and memorials are all stunning. The Shrine is set up in such a way that its overall presentation quietly demands respect and even awe. It is a perfect example of how art can convey not only emotions, but also elicit introspection and reverence for a subject.”

Many locals still remember feeling awe as children as they gazed up into the immense upper Church ceilings and saw hanging crutches and braces left in thanks for the healing of their various afflictions. Some of these devices still stand clustered in tribute around various saints in the lower Church. Architect Frank Gehry said, “Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.” The South Coast community needs to care for St. Anne’s so the Church can continue to speak of its time and place in our history.

Five-star care

Whether you are looking for support after a new diagnosis, recovering from surgery, or facing a serious illness, Community Nurse Home Care provides the comprehensive, compassionate, patient-focused care that comes with a five-star national rating and more than a hundred years of quality service. Their staff of more than 150 trained and skilled professionals can treat patients in their most comfortable setting: their home.

Community Nurse Home Care is only one of two home health care agencies in Massachusetts to hold a superlative five-star rating from the national Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in both patient satisfaction and

by Sean McCarthy

patient outcomes. These ratings are compiled through patient/family surveys and data from patient evaluations.

Last August, CMS began rating hospice agencies on this five-star scale, and Community Nurse Home Care’s Hospice program received the highest rating immediately and continues to hold that honor.

The Hospice Team is a comprehensive care team including a Hospice Medical Director, Nurses, Social Workers, Chaplains, and Home Health Aides. Volunteers are also an important part of the hospice program, assisting with companionship for the patient and respite for a patient’s caregivers. “When someone requires hospice care for a terminal illness, our focus is on comfort

and quality of life” says Hospice Director Ashlee Santos. “Our professional care team works with patients and caregivers to create individualized care, manage symptoms, and provide spiritual and emotional support. Our team provides bereavement support to the family after their loved one has passed.”

“As someone declines in their health, palliative care consultations help identify the patients’ and families’ goals for care” says Nurse Practitioner, Erin Van der Veer. Consultations assist with Advanced Care Planning including Healthcare Proxy (HCP) and Medical Order for Life Sustaining Treatment (MOLST).” Van der Veer provides guidance during a difficult time with information about disease progression

If you or a loved one are in need of home health care, you want the best care possible – someone who understands your situation and can provide the full amount of assistance necessary

Nursing team (l/c) (L-R): Priscilla Costa, RN; Patricia Martin, RN; Nicole Smith, RN; Erin Van der Veer, NP; Jada Baptiste, RN.

Photos by Colin Veitch

and the option of transitioning to hospice care.

“We want to help every hospice patient have the best quality of life at end of life,” says Christine Rider, a Social Worker with Community Nurse Home Care. “We assess the needs of the family and provide education on community resources available to help support the caregivers.” By anticipating grief, the Social Worker can offer emotional support and a comforting presence. They assist caregivers with honoring the wishes of their loved one.

A history of care

Since its beginnings in 1916, this Fairhaven-based organization has been recognized throughout New England and the nation for its quality of care. Serving 21 cities and towns in the South Coast, Community Nurse has been recognized for excellence in communication with patients and families, delivering services in a timely manner, control of patient’s symptoms, and treating patients with respect.

“We very much value our reputation,”

says Lisa Parent, President and CEO. “We’re an independent not-for-profit. We’re not part of a system, which allows us to focus on what the patient needs –not just meeting a bottom-line number. “We want to provide resources that go beyond our core services to allow our patients to have the best care that we can offer,” Parent says.

In addition to the hospice team, Community Nurse offers a variety of health care professionals including physical, occupational, and speech therapists, and a dietitian.

“All of our staff are experienced professionals with extensive training, says Melanie Pacheco, Quality Improvement Manager. “They all go through a comprehensive orientation process so that they are confident in their roles. We look for trends in the data collected through the surveys to identify educational needs for staff and provide education for staff regularly. All of our volunteers undergo 16 hours of training. They all play an important part in our five-star team.”

For patients in home care who

are looking for support after recovering from a recent diagnosis or hospitalization, planned surgery, or change in condition, they can benefit from Community Nurse’s ability to provide knowledge in community resources – an effort to help them achieve the greatest amount of independence possible.

Many of their most fragile patients have access to Remote Patient Monitoring, a tele-health service that enables Community Nurse’s clinical staff to check vital signs and manage symptoms by testing blood pressure, weight, and other vital checks each day to help the staff see how they are doing. Community Nurse is available 24 hours a day to their patients and their families. “The care we provide is based on the patient’s needs,” says Pacheco. “Our goal for those in home care is for them to be as independent as possible and for those in hospice care to be as comfortable as possible. We do that by focusing on them."

For more information visit communitynurse.com.

Our professional care team works with patients and caregivers to create individualized care, manage symptoms, and provide spiritual and emotional support. (L to R) Hospice Director Ashlee Santos; Hospice Medical Director Dr. Michelle McKenney; Erin Van der Veer, NP.

All of our staff are experienced professionals with extensive training,

(L to R) Leah Mullen, MSW; Chaplain John Rider; Christine Rider, MSW; Volunteer Coordinator Tracy Travers.

THINGS TO DO

Boosting

Over 30 local cultural events and 40 individual artists are receiving a total of over $400,0000 in New Bedford American Rescue Plan (ARPA) funds through grant programs administered by the city Economic Development Council's arts and culture arm, New Bedford Creative.

These awards range from $4,000 each to a variety of local artists through the ArtNet grant program, a new artist recovery and training network, to $15,000 each for the Reggae on West Beach summer program and the LaSoul Renaissance spoken poetry and open mic program at Verdean Veterans Memorial Hall beginning in April, awarded through Art is Everywhere, a grant program funded under a MassDevelopment's Creative Cities’ initiative to boost arts-based economic development post-pandemic.

Winner highlights

The highlights of the award winners

NEW BEDFORD

by Michael J. DeCicco

American food and culture, both funded through the Wicked Cool Places grant program.

Coastal Foodshed has been hosting cooking demonstrations since its inception in 2018, explained Executive Director and co-founder Stephanie Parks. “But we have grown quite a bit over the years through our Learn to Love Local program. These are free and open to the public at our farmers markets and mobile farm stands.”

include $15,000 to Coastal Foodshed's Local Food and Culturally Diverse Cooking Education program at weekly Farmers Markets, and $12,000 to the Community Economic Development Council (CEDC) for Patio de Comidas, a weekly event at Riverside Park in July and August celebrating Central

Parks said that while the core of its work is to make local food more accessible to New Bedford’s historically marginalized community members, the program aims also to support “cooking education, community building, placekeeping, placemaking at our farmers markets and mobile farm stands through our Learn to Love Local programming.”

She said the program does this in a number of ways, including hiring local musicians and artists to provide

New Bedford is promoting the arts in a big way

The program aims also to support “cooking education, community building, placekeeping, placemaking at our farmers markets and mobile farm stands through our Learn to Love Local programming

entertainment that reflects New Bedford’s diverse cultures and heritage and by hosting live cooking demonstrations at its markets to introduce customers to new and different local foods and diverse recipes. The Learn to Love Local program, she said, encourages customers to try new foods and celebrate diverse recipes and cooking traditions that are unique to New Bedford, including Portuguese, Cape Verdean, Italian, and Central American recipes, among others.

She noted that organizers have seen firsthand that many residents and new immigrants are reluctant to purchase local foods because of their lack of familiarity with seasonally available produce. “Many customers are unaware of common produce we sell (such as the many varieties of winter squash or mushrooms), or they might not know how to cook the vegetable even if they are familiar with it.” This programming fills that gap.

The program’s cooking demonstrations are hosted by local chef and artist Rhonda M. Fazio, who also invites community cooks when available and feasible to use items being sold at the market to demonstrate different ways to cook a variety of culturally diverse dishes and common recipes that show customers how to substitute certain ingredients for locally grown, seasonal ingredients. Overall, demonstrations focus on

simple, affordable, and easy-to-make recipes.

In 2021, the CEDC started the Patio de Comidas, a Latino food event at Riverside Park, on Saturdays in July and August in New Bedford's North End. “We work with start-up food vendors who sell traditional foods from Guatemala, Mexico, and El Salvador,” agency spokesperson Corinn Williams explained. “We have also featured Latino artists such as folkloric dancers, musicians, and painting workshops during the Patio de Comidas. Last year we combined the Patio de Comidas with the Festival Tipico de Guatemala, a larger community festival celebrating the Guatemalan community in New Bedford. We plan to host the 2023 Patio de Comidas season July 15 to August 25. Our NB Creative grant will again feature a weekly artist and or creative workshop.”

Lead from the front

Art is Everywhere is also funding $10,000 to both the 51st Cape Verdean Recognition Parade on July 1, and to filmmaker Alyssa Botelho’s production, Sweet Freedom, the story of Mary 'Polly' Johnson, who was the first to house famed abolitionist orator Frederick Douglass when he moved to New Bedford as a free man in 1838.

The 51st Annual Cape Verdean Recognition Parade steps off on July 1 from Buttonwood Park at 11 a.m. It begins on Union Street, turns right onto

Acushnet Avenue, right onto Grinnell Street, right onto Purchase Street, and ends at Cape Verdean American Veteran's Memorial Hall at 561 Purchase Street.

Botelho said Sweet Freedom will be a short narrative film around 15-20 minutes long with actors depicting Johnson's life. The Fairhaven native said that last summer she was looking into making a film on local history. When she came across Johnson's story she was shocked that she had never heard of her before. Johnson, Botelho learned, was more than just the first one to house Douglass as a free man. She was well-known around the city at the time as the best confectionery baker in the city (thus the film's title) as well as someone who would lodge freedom seekers in New Bedford along the Underground Railroad. “Polly was the greatest confectioner in the City of New Bedford by the middle of the 19th century,” Botelho said. “She catered parties, weddings, and sold sweets of all kinds from her shop, including ‘free labor candy’ – candy made from sugar that the Johnsons sourced from plantations that employed free people, not the enslaved. On top of running a successful business, she and her husband were also well known for providing safe lodging to those escaping the shackles of slavery. We're not even sure exactly how many people they took in. Because there were so many! It's a play on words, but it perfectly describes what Polly’s life was all about: providing sweet freedom.”

Right now, Botelho said, she is preparing the script and meeting with local groups to gather research and support and a cast of actors for the parts. She will use the $10,000 for all her pre-production expenses, such as paying crew members and cast and local fees, entry to local film festivals, etc.

If possible, she said she would love to film in Polly Johnson's actual home at 21 Seventh Street, across from the new Abolition Row Park now under construction.

“It'll be a film that people all over can rally around,” she said.

The 51st Annual Cape Verdean Recognition Parade steps off on July 1 from Buttonwood Park at 11 a.m

by Stacie Charbonneau Hess

THE art IS THE POINT

If not sleep, at least hide. Hide from the world, from the chaos of traffic lights and busy grocery stores. But just as the yellow daffodils and forsythia blossom and winged creatures descend upon our feeders in springtime, I yearn for community as the sun warms and the days extend. I want to seek a little more light. This year, which marks my 50th on planet Earth, I actively seek out experiences that awaken something dormant in me; something lost or perhaps as yet undiscovered. For about a year now I have taken voice lessons. I used to be a musical theater major and let that part of me slide into near extinction the past decade or so.

It’s been exciting to be

introduced or reintroduced to classical songs in German, Italian, and French. The cost is low and the time commitment reasonable for these lessons at the Symphony Music Shop in Dartmouth (symphonymusicshop.com). It is only $25 for thirty minutes, though I typically tip, because if anyone is underpaid it’s teachers and artists. What I have received from my year of private instruction rewards me tenfold what I have put in for time and money. My spirit is literally renewed, and I am now part of a community of vocalists.

My teacher, Patrice Teidemann, runs a nonprofit, the “vagabond theatre company” (officially called

Seaglass Theatre Company), that presents high-quality shows (even opera) in the South Coast (seaglasstheater. com). Twice now I have been blown away by the performances Seaglass Theatre Company has presented at Gallery X in New Bedford (galleryx.org). Even though I am not on stage singing arias solo, I feel proud of my connection to Patrice and to this community of music lovers. The music is the point.

Brushstrokes and bonding

My daughter Charlotte, now 14, has grown up playing the violin, yet during the

pandemic she discovered a new love: the fine arts. She and her sister watercolored, drew, embroidered, sewed, and knitted during those long, homebound days. Though some of that not-so-distant past was scary and unwelcome, this unveiling of my daughter’s creative side has been a gift, albeit a difficult one to give her full attention to with a high schooler’s schedule, commuting, and other demands on her time.

Just like for me and singing, though, I have the sense that Charlotte’s creative side also needs stimulation and nurturing, and not just within the walls of school and home. When I discovered

Like the flowers that lay dormant in the winter with only the promise of resurrection, I wish I could rest, maybe even hibernate, in winter

that Alison Wells, of “Alison Wells Fine Art Studio & Gallery” was back teaching art classes to the community, I immediately felt both comforted and energized (alisonwells.com).

I co-taught a class with Alison, a Trinidadian artist, one summer years ago to and I was excited to see what she was up to.

I signed Charlotte and myself up for a “Mixed Media Abstract Landscapes” class, which runs for just three hours, one spring Sunday afternoon. If I can participate in my daughter’s love of art and have the chance to stretch my own creative muscles, I am happy to make this investment (early bird price was $120). In my mind, it’s better than spending the same amount at LuluLemon or on the latest brand of headphones. I hope that Charlotte loves the workshop, but maybe more importantly, that she realizes she can be like Alison and make a living, and a life, from her art if she chooses.

Art mimics life. When you begin to focus on something, you notice it everywhere. Suddenly opportunities to be creative were all around me. While on my way to Peoples Pressed for my fresh-pressed juice fix, I noticed flyers for free classes advertised on the window of the Co-Creative Center in downtown New Bedford ( Fiber & Friends,

May 25 at 6:30 p.m.). You can see all their upcoming events at cocreativenb.org.

I found “Plein Air Watercolor Workshops” offered on two separate June days (9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on May 14 and 21) on the Westport Art Group website, westportartgroup. com. Then, last weekend while spending a day at Kilburn Mills at 101 West Rodney French Boulevard in New Bedford, I found the schedule for the “Art and Culture Emporium” where Karen Zukas hosts a dizzying array of classes in everything from “Crepe Paper Crocuses” to “Sock Monkeys: Learn the Fine Art of Monkeying Around.” Clearly this is a place that does not want to intimidate or exclude. The art is the point.

It’s funny – I used to feel that I needed to travel or live in a big city to find quality cultural experiences like art galleries, opera, or classes, but I guess what I have been searching for all along is community. So while I am busy ripping up paper for découpage, felting wool, painting landscapes, or singing an Italian aria, I am really asserting my presence in this place and in this time, however unpolished my art may be. Art is one of the ways I find light in the world, and I am lucky to be part of a community that keeps the candle burning bright.

Art mimics life. When you begin to focus on something, you notice it everywhere. Suddenly opportunities to be creative were all around me.

Consumers evolve and shopping needs change

Mills and malls

by Lori Bradley

Retailers pay a steep price for inflexibility. Shopping malls of the 1970s and 1980s drew customers away from city centers by offering concentrated access to major retailers, resulting in empty downtown store fronts and decay. Traditional malls offer mass-produced items fixed in the final link of the manufacturing supply chain. Most mall products have been processed and marked up through wholesalers; an impersonal process tailored to mass market segments rather than individuals, though some large malls are beginning to house “pop-up shops” featuring small local retailers.

That’s because large malls are losing customers fast. Many people currently shop online for bread-and-butter items and seek a more personalized shopping experience when they leave their homes. No longer wanting to be treated like anonymous end-users, shoppers are seeking uplifting and holistic experiences and a sense of connection with products, makers, and sellers. In many cities, like New Bedford,

customers are returning to shop in modern versions of shopping malls, and these are ironically housed in antique mill buildings.

Called the Mill with a View, the Kilburn Mill complex in the South End has become a destination for shoppers seeking an immersive and varied experience. Once one of the most productive textile mills in the city, it now houses dozens of small businesses including independent clothing stores, consignment stores, handmade gift shops, and other retailers along with wellness-oriented businesses including fitness gyms and yoga and massage studios.

A few special shops make a day at the Kilburn Mill a truly special shopping experience, including a live plant

store called Star Garden Studio. On a cold day, stepping into this store is like taking a trip to a tropical park. Its light-filled space is filled floor to ceiling with robustly healthy greenery that will enliven any indoor space.

Flip This Doll House (flipthisdollhouse. com) is housed in a massive open space and filled with doll houses from every era. Walking in the door is like entering a miniature city. Flip This Doll House sells hard-to-find and tiny furniture and household items to fit any aficionado’s imagination or fill a hobbyist with glee. Wandering through Flip This Doll House can be an achingly sentimental experience, with each house prodding a distant memory.

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Called the Mill with a View, the Kilburn Mill complex in the South End has become a destination for shoppers seeking an immersive and varied experience.

Amy Lund in her weaving studio at Hatch Street.

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Hidden enclave

The foundation of the Kilburn Mill are the dozens of artist’s studios and galleries scattered throughout like the venerable Judith Klein Gallery which was one of the first to open in the mill. Karen Zukas is a studio artist and founder of the New Bedford Art and Cultural Emporium, an art education collaborative at Kilburn Mills (nbartsandculturalemporium.com). A diverse group of regional artists offer accessible, short classes for all ages. Workshops offered this spring range from scrimshaw, paper collage, and paper flowers, to everyday automobile maintenance.

Zukas describes her experience of being an art entrepreneur at the Kilburn Mill: “The best part of working in a former mill space is knowing that we're recycling the building. These old buildings are well built, using some of the finest possible materials of their time. Kilburn Mill is close to the water of Clarke's Cove, and you can smell the fresh sea air while you're working.

“As artists, we are able to close the door and make our own work without interruption, or if we'd like to share what we do with others, the doors are open, and folks can walk on in. Most of us don't have regular business hours, but we are open whenever there are events, functions, classes, openings, workshops, or social or personal requests.”

The Kilburn Mill is an interior decorator’s dream, combining the old and the new in one easily walkable venue, while the studio artists keep it community oriented. Zukas enthusiastically summed up the present state of the mill and creative plans for the future: “There’s a soul in what artists do, a little piece of us shared, and put out there for others to enjoy. We are holding our first annual mural slam this fall, where local professional and amateur artists will paint an indoor mural for cash prizes. The events that we produce, the quality art that is available here, and the ever-changing availability of cuttingedge work is a huge attraction. Kilburn offers tremendous music, dance, and performance venues as well as its amazing, well-established galleries and private artist spaces.”

The Kilburn Mill shares some similarities with traditional malls like shopping combined with eating options such as the popular Dough Company (DoCo) which is attached to the mill and offers traditional sandwiches, breakfast foods and hot drinks with a twist like lemon/Blueberry pancakes and smoked salmon toast (doughcompany.business.site).

Just outside of the handicapaccessible ramp leading to DoCo and around the back of Kilburn Mill is the massive Antiques at the Cove (newbedfordantiquesatthecove.com). It is so huge that fans of mall-walking can put in a good mile just moving around the entire perimeter of the interior.

Supporting dozens of independent vendors, this antique mall has furniture and household ephemera, along with a changing selection of truly quirky items like a 1960s sunbathing booth with a skeleton inside.

Spools to sculpture

There is another mill complex offering eclectic shopping opportunities in the North End of New Bedford. Housed in the former Nashawena textile mill complex, the 88 and 90 Hatch Street Studio buildings house three floors of artist’s studios and small businesses. From high-end furniture makers like Floating Stone Woodworks and John Giacobbi Studios to jewelers, painters, and ceramicists, the Hatch Street Studios are also a decorator’s dream (hatchstreetsudios.com).

There are a few stand-out, unusual spaces to visit like the Amy Lund Handweavers on the second floor (aclhandweaver.com). Lund’s space is filled with antique weaving looms of all sizes and is a living tribute to the textile origins of the Nashawena complex. She weaves contemporary clothing with a nod to tradition in the colors and patterns incorporated into her fine fabrics.

“I love the repurposing of existing historic spaces for contemporary activities,” Lund says. “Other retail locations I have occupied have also been repurposed homes and community grange halls. The airy, expansive atmosphere of the mill studio spaces is inviting for creativity.”

The Kilburn Mill is an interior decorator’s dream, combining the old and the new in one easily walkable venue, while the studio artists keep it community oriented.

Kilburn Mill

CONTINUED Ceramicist Corrinn Jusell works in a massive, light studio space on the third floor where she creates her stunning, functional wares embodying the soft colors and light of South Coast beaches (madebycorrinn.com). Like Lund, she grapples with balancing the luxury of working in a large, open space with having active access to retail shoppers.

“What drew me to having a studio in one of the many mill buildings that the beautiful city of New Bedford has to offer would be the endless possibility that the space holds,” Jusell says. “When I was looking for a space to start my business, I was looking for an open space that I could work in every day, while selling and manufacturing my work. I found Hatch Street Studios and after a tour I knew it was the space. It was clean and well-kept, there was a community of like-minded creatives, and it was affordable for a young artist. Often I am asked why I stay tucked away in a mill building and don't move to a more visible storefront with foot traffic. I tell them that I enjoy where I am, for me much of my sales are not conducted through my studio – my work is sold through a third party. Most of my work is sold through consignment and wholesale to other stores or via my made-to-order page on my website.”

While Hatch Street Studio artists all grapple with finding the right mix of consistent retail shopping hours, open studios, and a spontaneous drop-in atmosphere, the mill is always an exciting place to visit. Fortunately, the South Coast is chock-full of mall-sized mill buildings where creative business fusions can take root and flourish. The celebratory vibe of artists working in studios attracts diverse categories of retailers to join in setting up shop in refurbished mill buildings. The mixture is a proven profitable blend as evidenced by the current trend of traditional large retailer anchored malls renting space to small retailers and creative pop-up shops to bring in a new audience. And the arts help foster social connections and lend a sense of community to a retail environment, and what is needed more than creative unity right now?

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Flinging spring

by Paul Kandarian

Hey, May, whaddya say, please make winter go away!

As I write this in the second week of April, the official start of spring was one month ago and outside it is 27 degrees. Those are winter numbers. Although it’s been a relatively mild winter around these parts with minimal snow, there is often one day of an arctic blast followed by one of equatorial muck and no one bats an eye.

Or as Mark Twain famously

said, “If you don’t like the weather in New England, wait a minute,” which was actually a truncated quote, the rest of which was “or my name isn’t Mark Twain… or is it Samuel Clemens? Hey, can someone get this squirrel out of my giant moustache?”

Here’s the thing about New England weather that’s quite simple: it’s cold, cold, cold, hot, cold, cold, cold. Or if the weather in New

England were a clock it would look like this:

Fall is 6 to 12, where average temperatures range from 0-30.

Winter is 12 to 5, where average temperatures range from FYAO (freezing your ass off) to “Kill me now.”

Spring 5 to 5:45, where average temperatures are the same as what you’d get from 6 to 12.

Summer lasts from 5:45 to

6. Average temperatures… ever felt your skin melt?

I think the fickle nature of New England weather is what makes us cranky, and make no mistake about it: we are cranky. I have visited most parts of this country where many people smile, are friendly, say hello, offer to help. We not only don’t do that here, we don’t like it when other people do. We’re already mistrustful. If you lay decent human behavior before us, we get all confused and angry and lash out like a squirrel trapped in that thicket on Twain’s upper lip.

I’m pretty sure we have

the Pilgrims to blame for this. Pilgrims were Puritans who came here and, like Columbus, thought they’d found something they could claim as their own even though natives had been living here for who-knowshow-long, so the Pilgrims/ Puritans started a new tradition in the new land: wiping out anyone who got in their sanctimonious way!

The Pilgrims were the first Puritans to sail here from England, a name they equated with religious oppression, so naturally they named their new stolen digs “New England,” because after the long journey they were too tired to be fussy about branding.

It was in December of 1620 that they settled in Plymouth, the legend being they stepped forth on a rock so small and meaningless it would transform the landscape into one of kitschy shops and no place to park in the summer because thousands throng there to be underwhelmed by The Plymouth Pebble.

But it was winter in New England whereupon one Pilgrim/Puritan said to another, “Pray thee, brother, might we set sail for warmer climes in the southern portion of this land God hath provided us?” to which the other responded, “How dare ye speak of such heresy?

God hath led us here, God has spoken, and it is here we will stay!” whereupon the first Pilgrim/Puritan scratched his head and said, “So God likes freezing-yourass-off weather?” and found himself locked in stocks in the public square.

One thing you gotta hand to the Puritans: boy, did they knew how to punish people for… oh, hell, everything!

Sins, sorta sins, are-youkidding-me sins, sins your grandparents may have just thought about, you name it.

Punishments for violating Puritan laws included fines, imprisonment, pillory, stocks, whipping, the ducking stool, public humiliation, hanging, and tar-and-feathering.

And that’s just kid’s stuff, considering the punishment for speaking out against the religion included ears being cut off, burning, and a hot awl plunged through the tongue. At least two adulterers (frankly, I think they were just trying to stay warm) in Massachusetts Bay Colony were executed. Also, public whippings were common and a so-called guilty person was often locked in a stockade where onlookers could spit on and laugh at them, which of course are known today as long lines at the DMV. They also had special punishment for slanderers, nags, and gossips: the Brank, aka the “Gossip’s Bridle” or the “Scold’s Helm,” any of which would make a smashing name for a rock band, but was a sort of heavy iron case that covered the head, and in which a flat tongue of iron (sometimes spiked iron, those kinksters!) would be thrust into the mouth over a criminal’s tongue.

So put all that together with an interminable winter in a new country and you have us: the grouchy descendants of a grouchy people in a new frozen land. Whaddya expect, a smile? We can’t. Our faces are frozen. But hey, if you don’t like New England weather, grow a mustache the size of a pork loin, house a squirrel in it, and make up pithy quotes.

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