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Commercial Fisheries News
Volume 36 Number 9
May 2009
New Bedford industry group chooses design for community monument honoring fishermen
NEW BEDFORD, MA – After years of hard work, fund-raising, and planning, the Fishermen’s Tribute Fund hosted an event called “The Big Reveal” on April 17 to announce the selection of a design for a fishermen’s monument to honor industry members past, present, and future.
Scores of people gathered at the New Bedford Whaling Museum to enjoy refreshments by Cardoza’s Wine and Food Emporium and take one last look at the models of the six design finalists.
Then the winner was announced – a collaborative design by Joseph Ingoldsby of Landscape Mosaics in Marshfield and Linda Montillieo of A. Monti Granite Co. Inc. in Quincy.
The design is a granite eastern-rigged fishing vessel with a cross-shaped mast, which also serves as a flagpole, and a wheelhouse where plaques can be installed. Visitors will be able to walk up grassy, tiered steps to enter the split vessel, which carries the name “New Bedford” on its bow. On top of the wheelhouse stands a fisherman wearing a simple cap and work clothes with his hand on the wheel.
“The deck of the vessel will be used as a meeting place, with a speaking platform on the bow, to address people gathered on the great lawn or even on the deck of the boat,” said Jim Kendall, chairman of site and design for the Fishermen’s Tribute Fund.
The monument will be built on land donated by the city at Fort Taber, the first and last place fishermen see on their way in and out of the port of New Bedford.
Fund-raising for the actual construction of the monument is now underway. Donations may be mailed to: Fishermen’s Tribute Fund, PO Box 4093, New Bedford, MA 02740.
For more information on the project and the names of the many industry people working on it, go to <www.fishermensmonument.org>. /cfn/
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