The 25-hour reading of Herman Melville's seafaring tome returns in person to the New Bedford Whaling Museum for the first time since the pandemic began.
A photo from a previous Moby-Dick Marathon with a reader reciting the sermon of"Father Mapple."
“As adults, how often do we sit and let someone read us a story?” she asked. “I also think that there is something pretty spectacular about the communal feeling of being in it with other people — you're sort of launched on this epic tale with very salty characters.” Melville himself walked the port city's cobblestone streets a decade before writing his seafaring tome. In 1841, he set out from New Bedford on his own whale hunting journey that informed the depth of technical detail found in"Moby-Dick." The marathon's timing is aligned to mark Melville's departure day of Jan. 3.McMullen said scholars and fans are traveling to join the marathon from places including California and Wyoming.
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