It's such a great idea that it's hard to understand why it hasn't taken off more quickly.
I'm talking about New Bedford building an inspiring monument to its fishermen at the tip of the Fort Rodman peninsula.
The peninsula point is the city land's end, the last part of New Bedford this city's iconic fishermen see when they go down to the sea in the ships. And it's also the first bit of the city they see again when they return to shore from their rugged North Atlantic labors.
Fishermen's Tribute Fund president Deb Shrader, as tenacious a soul as any who's ever crossed the Fairhaven Bridge, says the peninsula tip is a place where the wives and children of fishermen who've been lost at sea — or who just miss their love ones — sometimes go to sit and think about the ocean that owns so much of their men.
It deserves a monument worthy of the scores of local fishermen who've died laboring in an industry that is the city's heartbeat, she believes.
Read the complete opinion piece from The Standard-Times.