Travel back to the 1930s, when dust storms ravaged the parched and overplowed southern plains, turning bountiful wheat fields into desert. Disease, hardship and death followed, yet people stayed, refusing to give up on their land and way of life.
Last week marked 183 years since a young Herman Melville set sail from New Bedford aboard the Acushnet on a working voyage that later inspired his magnum opus, "Moby Dick". The city is now asking artists to submit designs for a statue to honor the author and his legacy.
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Bud Kennedy, a 19-year-old sailor from San Pedro, California joined the US Navy one month after graduating from San Pedro High School in June 1940. He was glad to get his first assignment on a ship homeported in San Pedro, the battleship USS Oklahoma (BB