At the Moby-Dick Reading Marathon, the greatest American novel still draws a crowd

For the last 30 years, fans of Herman Melville's 1851 novel have gathered for a live, 25-hour reading of the whole book.
Smithsonian Magazine

Fervent Fans of ‘Moby-Dick’ Flock to This Massachusetts Town to Read the Book Cover to Cover

Once the whaling capital of the world, New Bedford remembers Herman Melville’s literary masterpiece with an annual reading ...
WBUR

Readers dive into New Bedford Whaling Museum's 30th 'Moby-Dick' marathon

The New Bedford Whaling Museum's 30th annual reading of "Moby-Dick" kicks off on Jan. 3. (Courtesy New Bedford Whaling Museum) "Call me Ishmael” — one of the most famous first lines in literary ...
Roll Tide Wire

Exhibit explores early days of photography and its impact on New Bedford

A new exhibition at the New Bedford Whaling Museum explores early photography, providing a window into the lives of those who ...
Hyperallergic

Conserving America's Longest Painting, a 19th-Century Whaling Panorama

Before the dawn of film, motion picture entertainment was often literally a moving picture. From the late 18th to 19th centuries, entrepreneurs traveled the United States and Great Britain with ...