NEW BEDFORD – The New Year arrives this week and that means it’s time for the annual Moby-Dick Marathon at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
The 23rd Moby-Dick Marathon will be held January 4-6.
The museum celebrates the anniversary of Herman Melville’s 1841 departure from the Port of New Bedford and Fairhaven aboard the whaleship, Acushnet.
Melville would later write and publish the famous novel in 1851.
The marathon weekend features one of the world’s most well-known live readings of Moby-Dick – a 25-hour read-a-thon.
Readers and audience members begin the reading alongside the world’s largest whaleship model – the Lagoda. The first five chapters will be read amongst the sails, lines and tools of the time period.
The reading will then move through multiple settings of the museum, including a theatrical interpretation of Chapter 40, Midnight Forecastle.
A dinner and a discussion with Melville scholar Jennifer Baker, of New York University, will also be held on Friday, January 4 at 5:30 p.m.
Tickets for the dinner and discussion are $50, $40 for members.
For a complete schedule of marathon events, visit whalingmuseum.org.
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