Author Joanne Elaine and illustrator Cindy Young are coming together to craft books aimed at developing compassion and empathy in the hearts and minds of the children who read them.
Author Archives: Sean McCarthy
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Philip H. Beauregard invests in people, ‘true believers’
“We are entrusted by some of the most wonderful, smart, and amazing people in the world to invest their money into very, very early-stage companies. … Google and SpaceX and Amazon all started small. And so we hope to be the people that find those upstarts and play a small part in their story.”
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A teacher and coach, Dartmouth’s Joshua Rodrigues loves the game
A developmental coach with the Norfolk Tides, Rodrigues says: “To work in professional baseball you need to be someone who just loves baseball and loves being around a team … and in the end, honestly, I’m coaching a baseball game and it’s a kid’s sport.”
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Walter James Sylvia’s journey from alcohol addiction to poetry
In his book “Necessary Surrender,” the lifelong New Bedford resident said “I really had to put my hands up and say, ‘Look, I’m not God, I don’t control the universe. I’m not going to beat a river into submission, I’m going to go with the flow.’”
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Inspired by Black community, Justina Perry pays it forward
The founder of Buy Black NB and her own women’s health clinic says, “I think that it is important to have people who inspire you that you can see yourself in.”
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Bryon Knight: New arts center in Fairhaven looks to educate as well as entertain
Shepherd Center for the Performing Arts President says his mission is to not only highlight local talent but to teach skills and train the community.
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Joe Thomas: A Spinner of tales for more than four decades
With Spinner Publications, he has spent much of his adult life chronicling the fertile history and culture of the people of this region with words and images. When this New Bedford-based company issued its first book in 1981, Amazon was still only a jungle and the web was primarily the province of spiders.
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At 24, Fairhaven filmmaker Alyssa Botelho celebrates 20th short film
She’s in the final stages of producing “Sweet Freedom,” a movie based on the New Bedford abolitionist Polly Johnson, and shopping it to high-profile film festivals such as Sundance and Tribeca.
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A musician with a heart: Sean FitzGerald lends a hand to help those in need
The economic struggles he experienced in his childhood and as an early adult have made him keenly aware that the stage can be used as a platform to provide for people throughout the region.
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Neal Weiss: A passion for jazz and an ‘addiction’ to making music
As the founder of the Whaling City Sound record label, he saw something that no one else did: the abundance of jazz talent in the region that was worthy of national recognition.