Remembering the Black Yankee

hoaglandOver 100 area residents turned out to last week’s poetry reading by former New Bedford Poet Laureate Everett Hoagland at the Ocean Explorium, entitled: “Black Hands, White Sails: A Meditation on Blacks in the Maritime Trades”, in which Westport’s renowned Captain Paul Cuffe (1759-1817) had a starring role.  read full story