This highlight video captures moments from the 2025 Remembrance & Blessing of the Fleet on the historic New Bedford waterfront. Community members, clergy, and members of the working waterfront gathered to honor fishermen lost at sea and to continue the...
Each year, readers and Melville enthusiasts from around the world gather in New Bedford for the annual Moby-Dick Marathon—a 25-hour celebration of Herman Melville’s literary masterpiece. In the 2024 event, chapters 7 through 9 were read inside the historic Seamen’s...
The annual Moby-Dick Marathon at the New Bedford Whaling Museum honors Herman Melville’s enduring connection to this historic whaling port. In the 2023 reading, chapters 7 and 8 were performed inside the Seamen’s Bethel—the very chapel that inspired Melville’s...
