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Isn’t Aaron Lansky from New Bedford? 108.20.26.12 (talk) 22:11, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

source? /nm Icannotchoosemyuser (talk) 18:45, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I was wondering why Cheryl's story is not mentioned anywhere on the New Bedford Wikipedia page. Her story was made into a media sensation and reported both within the US and internationally (Canada and as far away as Japan) in 1983-84 when she was raped and the trial that followed. While this situation did cast a negative light on the Portuguese community at the time it still deserves at least a mention on this page as Cheryl did grow up and live in New Bedford for the majority of her all to short life...? This case was also the inspiration for the 1986 motion film "The Accused" starring Jodie Foster, which she won her first Best Actress Oscar for.

Thanks for your time and thoughts on this matter...

KNP1701C KNP1701C (talk) 02:43, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

individual crimes usually aren't mentioned in city pages Icannotchoosemyuser (talk) 18:46, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, "'Rock oil' [..] derived from crude oil as a lamp fuel appeared on the market only in the 1860s, at least 15 years after the production peak of whale oil." Ugo Bardi: Price trends over a complete Hubbert Cycle: The case of the American whaling industry in the 19th century, 2004 [1] and also Bardi: Energy Prices and Resource Depletion: Lessons from the Case of Whaling in the Nineteenth Century, 2007 [2]. Whaling data is cited from Alexander Starbuck: History of the American whale fishery, Seacaucus, N.J. 1878. [3]

The peak of whale oil harvesting was in the 1840s, whereas the boom of petroleum started only half a generation years later. Furthermore "In the mid-1840s, New Bedford was the site of the first petroleum fuel refinery in the United States, as newly discovered Pennsylvania crude oil was shipped to New Bedford to be refined for lamp oil and other oil." seems a misrepresenation of the given source "refining lubricating oils". Not petroleum was refined (this was discovered in industrial quantities later), but whale oil e.g. to improve the smell. Gunnar (talk) 13:36, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently it is oldest continuously operating one in the country, having started in 1912. Jason McHuff (talk) 07:21, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]