South Coast Today
NEW BEDFORD – A landmark New Bedford church will be buttoned up for the winter following rapid community response to a preservation group’s call for donations. . .
. . .First Baptist is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is internationally known as the place where Lt. Henry Martyn Robert, a church member, developed Robert’s Rules of Order after moderating a disorderly meeting. Today the rules are used in many locales as the standard parliamentary procedure for public meetings. . .
