New Bedford — The New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center presents Mothers, Daughters, Wives: Songs, Poems & Stories from Women in Fishing Families on Thursday, March 8 at 7 p.m. as part of AHA night.

But for the former fisherman, writing has always been a way to remember. He wrote his first fishing poem when he was stranded on land, after the Exxon-Valdez oil spill of 1989. "I ended up writing ...