NEW BEDFORD – Herman Melville enthusiasts and Moby-Dick fans mark your calendars: one of the world’s best known readings of Melville’s iconic American novel returns to the New Bedford Whaling Museum this January.
The Annual Moby-Dick Marathon attracts thousands of people each year to the Museum’s campus and to the online livestream.
The 25-hour marathon takes place in several Whaling Museum galleries and across the street in the Seamen’s Bethel, made famous in Melville’s classic as the Whaleman’s Chapel.
Melville attended Bethel services in the early 1840’s, when he sailed out on a whaleship, and his pew is marked.
In addition to the main event, the Whaling Museum incorporates two mini-marathons as well, a Portuguese-language reading; and a children’s version too.
If you would like to take part, online registration for volunteer Moby-Dick reading slots begins at midnight on Tuesday, November 7, 2017. The 200 or so reading spots typically fill up in a matter of hours.
For full details about the 22nd Annual Moby-Dick Marathon visit www.whalingmuseum.org.
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