tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2431362213838824652024-02-07T18:08:34.550-05:00Ahab BeckonsIn Which Is Discussed the Annual Moby-Dick Marathon of the New Bedford Whaling MuseumLemuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15472255526491496651noreply@blogger.comBlogger325125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243136221383882465.post-64522165904462586962024-01-03T14:15:00.005-05:002024-01-03T14:52:43.821-05:00Forgotten but not gone...<blockquote>One starts things moving without a thought of how to stop them. In order to speak. One starts speaking as if it were possible to stop at will. It is better so. The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue. ...But not so fast. First dirty, then make clean.<br /><em> - The Unnameable</em>, Samuel Beckett</blockquote><p>Covid aversion kept us away from the last three MDMs, but <a href="https://www.whalingmuseum.org/about/leadership/" target="_blank">Michael Lapides</a> & co. saw to it that the proceedings were broadcast and archived on YouTube. Many thanks for that!</p><p>Of the <b>2023 </b>marathon reading (MDM27) I can say: some media figures are <a href="https://youtu.be/hhEaL_SExJA?si=eB-QcUPtCmhWwVLY&t=2937" target="_blank">great readers</a>, and some are <a href="https://youtu.be/hhEaL_SExJA?si=JzaI6ZOs9wHGuNa6&t=101" target="_blank">less so</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/people/223448903/arun-rath" target="_blank">Arun Rath</a>, whose voice will be familiar to listeners of WGBH, could have read the entire book with no complaint from me. (Unlike the "volunteer" readers, the "invited" readers who open each MDM have a very good idea of the chapter, if not the passage, they will be reading. How can so many come so ill-prepared?)</p><blockquote>No matter, no matter, let us go on as if all arose from one and the same weariness...<br /><em> - Molloy</em>, Samuel Beckett</blockquote><p>This just in: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Bobbitt" target="_blank">Michael J. Bobbitt</a> (playwright, director, choreographer, and Executive Director of the Mass. Cultural Council) will be this year's opening reader.</p><p><br /></p>Gansevoorthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13190512916384175164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243136221383882465.post-25884300498229877092022-01-07T01:45:00.001-05:002022-01-09T14:18:43.143-05:00MDM25 "post-mortimising"<p>The 2021 MDM was, of course, scaled down due to the ongoing global pandemic. All the readings were streamed on YouTube. Once I realized that the readings were not "live," I pretty much tuned out the entire event. Oh, ye foolish! My favorite part of recent MDMs, the <i>Chats with the Melville Scholars</i>, <u>was </u>done live over Zoom — and I missed it! (Future researchers will study the phenomenon of pandemic-induced stupidity.)</p><p>Luckily, the entire MDM, with the "Chat," the Friday night lecture by Steven Olsen-Smith, and a presentation by Michael Dyer, is <a href="https://youtu.be/mrNOEoh9ER8" target="_blank">available on YouTube</a>. (Watch them before they're gone. "Google is not in the preservation business.")<br /></p><p>To this MDM veteran, the slick, new opening video is certainly attention-grabbing. We fly up above Johnny Cake Hill, then track the actor through the museum to the <i>Lagoda</i>, where he watches a video of Museum President Amanda McMullen welcoming viewers. I'll be looking this year to see what video magic is used to insert the 2022 logo on his TV.<br /></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="298" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/jsGR7E-Xmo4" title="YouTube video player" width="530"></iframe></p><p><b>Note </b>that this year's Scholar Chat will again be live via Zoom. The schedule and link are on the museum's <a href="https://www.whalingmuseum.org/program/moby-dick-marathon-2022/" target="_blank">MDM page</a>, along with the video stream of readers. Readings begin Saturday, 1/8/22, at 11:30 AM Eastern time.<br /></p>Gansevoorthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13190512916384175164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243136221383882465.post-41766730011586701312021-01-06T01:13:00.013-05:002022-01-09T13:32:42.837-05:00MDM24 "post-mortemising"<div style="text-align: left;"><b>The 2021 MDM is just days away. Let's get MDM24 (Jan. 3-5, 2020) into the historical record now. </b></div><div><br /></div><div>January 2020. We crowded into the Whaling Museum to share another Moby-Dick Marathon. In the innocence of our hearts! (This year's <a href="https://www.whalingmuseum.org/programs/2021-moby-dick-marathon/" target="_blank">MDM25</a> will have some folks reading from the museum, but most will stream their reading from home. With luck and discipline, the 2022 MDM will be a joyful, in-the-flesh reunion.) [<i>Update, 1/10/21:</i> All the 2021 readings were recorded <u>before</u> MDM25, most at the reader's home, then edited by the Museum into ten (long) streaming videos.]</div><div><br /></div><div>MDM24 unfurled along the lines of previous years. Attendance seemed slightly down from 2019's banner year, but I can find no reports. Ten-time Dutch reader, Tjitske Zwerver, commented on the number of new faces. Were they lured to the reading by the recent bicentennial of Melville's birth, or was it the not-frigid weather and complete absence of snow? </div><div><br /></div><div>It was good to see the regulars—people I know only from repeated MDMs. Barbara from Pittsfield was about to retire from her law office job to become a volunteer at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkshire_Athenaeum" target="_blank">Berkshire Athenaeum</a>, helping to organize Hershel Parker's archive of Melville material(!); "dozens of boxes." [See <a href="https://fragmentsfromawritingdesk.blogspot.com/2019/03/good-news-my-melville-archives-will-go.html" target="_blank">here </a>& <a href="https://fragmentsfromawritingdesk.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-berkshire-athenaeum-is-outdoing.html" target="_blank">here</a>.] <a href="https://twitter.com/jessica_a_kent" target="_blank">Jessica Kent</a> passed on a link to her Harvard Master's <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:37736772" target="_blank">thesis</a>, <i>"That Unfailing Comfort Is, It's All Predestinated": Ishmael's Calvinist Journey in Moby-Dick</i>. Much appreciated (even if the contemplation of Calvinism makes me despair for humanity).</div><div><br /></div><div>New at MDM24:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>A photobooth (free) for a souvenir strip of snapshots.</li><li>A <i>Voyage Passport</i>. Every four hours you collect a stamp at reader check-in. If you finish the MDM with all six stamps, you are awarded a very generous gift bag. (Much more humane than the previous "stay awake for the full 25 hours" criterion.)</li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div>The museum dedicated the 2020 MDM to David Blanchette of West Wareham, who died October 19, 2019. You've seen his artwork on marathon buttons and signage. He was author and illustrator of children's books, including <a href="https://www.newbedfordguide.com/xico-whaling-adventure-storybook-during-aha/2013/09/11" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Xico</a>. (Follow the link; you'll recognize his drawing style.)</div><div><br /></div><div>Edward Camara Jr. of Mattapoisett died November 17, 2019. He was honored on the Reader Program as "a stalwart supporter of this event, who missed only one Marathon between 1997 and 2019." </div><span><br /></span><div style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF8fEv6huoRiycopuYyaKIaw5_UyXE4RJ9QAKI6SdSfNL2Rzkyivp5Qz1n0pkT4XBZyJnAmgaW2BKdjciZMxcoutHV80zp24Ce6dJQ0OZ1pf94DVuXTxbN6kAWQ54U92l61Jxp-dUBJZw/s2048/IMG_0017.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF8fEv6huoRiycopuYyaKIaw5_UyXE4RJ9QAKI6SdSfNL2Rzkyivp5Qz1n0pkT4XBZyJnAmgaW2BKdjciZMxcoutHV80zp24Ce6dJQ0OZ1pf94DVuXTxbN6kAWQ54U92l61Jxp-dUBJZw/s320/IMG_0017.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>10:00 AM</b><br /><i>Stump the Scholars</i>, with emcee Capt. Michael Taylor (substituting for Michael Dyer), and scholars from <a href="https://teachingmelville.org/" target="_blank">Teaching Melville</a>: Timothy Marr (UNC), Jennifer Baker (NYU), Christopher Sten (George Washington U.), Robert K. Wallace (U. of Kentucky), Mary K. Bercaw Edwards (U. of Conn. & Mystic Seaport), and Jeff Markman (New Trier H.S., substituting for Wyn Kelley).<br /><div>Among other things, we learned that after the 1866 fire in the Seamen's Bethel, the pews were reoriented to face away from the street, and the current blunt steeple was added, replacing a bird-watching stand(?)!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT5vcgBmIWtM2og_xMQEujxeJBBC82IRpK16KpPFP2mUDr8hlQZRH7pXSz7u4pChf2NOS6jXzP5mnWHYP0fjnD8VQHgcnCSh8MNEHfgNXi5vHaqrxO_rbeJVaRMmHaR53zSvn_arsvj8s/s1200/IMG_0060.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT5vcgBmIWtM2og_xMQEujxeJBBC82IRpK16KpPFP2mUDr8hlQZRH7pXSz7u4pChf2NOS6jXzP5mnWHYP0fjnD8VQHgcnCSh8MNEHfgNXi5vHaqrxO_rbeJVaRMmHaR53zSvn_arsvj8s/s320/IMG_0060.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><b>Noon</b></div><div>A familiar face opened <i>Loomings</i>: Jared Bowen, Executive Arts Editor at <a href="https://www.wgbh.org/news/people/jared-bowen" target="_blank">WGBH</a>. He set a suitably reverential tone with, "Call<b>.</b> Me<b>.</b> Ishmael<b>.</b>" Marathoners applauded his fine reading.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixVCONQmUMvlSvzQs-nEyl5BTbLRUZL0KjrgbEkt-lNQF8q_9a6rfCNQ7TOPDvMe2OAx4ynqAP8CyyAjCEgR3ey6YC9dvUg45QpiuBcOe2sj5A6IMnxGQtusm7ecsvfPO7j76VdH4SfCI/s1200/IMG_0069.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixVCONQmUMvlSvzQs-nEyl5BTbLRUZL0KjrgbEkt-lNQF8q_9a6rfCNQ7TOPDvMe2OAx4ynqAP8CyyAjCEgR3ey6YC9dvUg45QpiuBcOe2sj5A6IMnxGQtusm7ecsvfPO7j76VdH4SfCI/s320/IMG_0069.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Senator Edward Markey continued Chapter 1, which was particularly resonant given that articles of impeachment were about to be submitted to the Senate.<br /><i><br /></i><div><i>...Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States...<br /></i><div><br /></div><div>New Bedford's mayor customarily reads <i>The Street</i>, Chapter 6. Mayor Jon Mitchell did the honors.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGKSftrG1ccjRHaZTVQJBuQ6ncEcUcmjoeg1xjWVjV5xMmbwq3OGg8IntU065XaO3-Tc2MsLN9FHe0ijMCkUXo-QhvSGhhIYvBmC7bX0Gazq_TY8-GcQLzIDPWOZgA7FdUjLpO8eKahRU/s1200/IMG_0078-0128p.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGKSftrG1ccjRHaZTVQJBuQ6ncEcUcmjoeg1xjWVjV5xMmbwq3OGg8IntU065XaO3-Tc2MsLN9FHe0ijMCkUXo-QhvSGhhIYvBmC7bX0Gazq_TY8-GcQLzIDPWOZgA7FdUjLpO8eKahRU/s320/IMG_0078-0128p.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>1:20 PM</b><div>Once more unto the Bethel, dear friends, once more ...for Chapters 7-9.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="#foot1" id="asterisk1"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgalS2WxK-KyNG5fYAvTfF8pRQncTC50tGb1flGKM9Qw-tZk9QbU3hCrZpgZrPILHzTNoCSlR00e4OlWIsuAf65lm1ZHqdECuxbPxJKXnnKAF3esr1utpxVsMmyZEvPGGwaJbw_gQcqyEE/s1200/IMG_0079-set-0148p.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgalS2WxK-KyNG5fYAvTfF8pRQncTC50tGb1flGKM9Qw-tZk9QbU3hCrZpgZrPILHzTNoCSlR00e4OlWIsuAf65lm1ZHqdECuxbPxJKXnnKAF3esr1utpxVsMmyZEvPGGwaJbw_gQcqyEE/s320/IMG_0079-set-0148p.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>1:45 PM</b><br /><div>While the action was away in the Bethel, there was time to admire the "set design" by Michael Lapides, Director of Digital Initiatives. Note the glow in the faux fireplace, the objects on the mantel and table, the whaling print, the lamp on the desk,... I'll bet it looked great on the video stream. (Sadly, the video has disappeared from YouTube. "Google is not in the preservation business.")</div><div>This year, readers had a choice of armchair or lectern.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoWn20E0br1tl5GhB7xRzKeLB8pe6RdKyGHDVxe7EuLIJoXpG0KIBpk-C8YBFLsfiiECUivvkJCIdVdIbY0g9jmc4uVKZ8CRqc8BBXaVOt3rhRuM_7ItRZhdSTtrFfdSHfHLjirI-PZPY/s1200/IMG_0082-0334p.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoWn20E0br1tl5GhB7xRzKeLB8pe6RdKyGHDVxe7EuLIJoXpG0KIBpk-C8YBFLsfiiECUivvkJCIdVdIbY0g9jmc4uVKZ8CRqc8BBXaVOt3rhRuM_7ItRZhdSTtrFfdSHfHLjirI-PZPY/s320/IMG_0082-0334p.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>2:30 PM</b></div><div>Chat with Melville Scholars (seen here just breaking up) —</div><div>These "chats" grow larger every year, and with good reason. Lots of grist here, seeded by members of the <a href="https://melvillesociety.org/" target="_blank">Melville Society</a>. What will the focus of M-D be for the 21st century? Melville as "memorialist" of the whaling industry. Ahab is to M-D as Dr. Frankenstein is to his monster. Was Ahab based on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wilkes" target="_blank">Charles Wilkes</a>?<br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuOxFw1Q7YElB6bbmWHeelb2X2GBgqwtEr2thUJ_rhVWZOx0zlUD1_Pj3gaw7VYkbWc_fC-js2XAdfaPl4pHsq_9PFwz6QFlsLSgbBEkYte6UKtFFeg30Uq2cXsngkdDQd8xM6pr4JuZ0/s1200/IMG_0084-0408p.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuOxFw1Q7YElB6bbmWHeelb2X2GBgqwtEr2thUJ_rhVWZOx0zlUD1_Pj3gaw7VYkbWc_fC-js2XAdfaPl4pHsq_9PFwz6QFlsLSgbBEkYte6UKtFFeg30Uq2cXsngkdDQd8xM6pr4JuZ0/s320/IMG_0084-0408p.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>4:00 PM</b></div><div>Solid attendance through the afternoon.<br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-qwZSHvGhf_ZCwqHhevDUzwkhPGcaIFHkPvq9zO2r_O5Is4UA_Dr6DQJvaVgsp4Y5iZLKxT95JjL2I8jXbYkHHUU0z8_IFoSVvIIDCU_KvSbFmcmEOxUkvUG-uS6iXBMikI6RG9Ih5rA/s1200/IMG_0089-1051p.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-qwZSHvGhf_ZCwqHhevDUzwkhPGcaIFHkPvq9zO2r_O5Is4UA_Dr6DQJvaVgsp4Y5iZLKxT95JjL2I8jXbYkHHUU0z8_IFoSVvIIDCU_KvSbFmcmEOxUkvUG-uS6iXBMikI6RG9Ih5rA/s320/IMG_0089-1051p.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>10:50 PM</b></div><div>On to <i>The Town Ho's Story</i> as the crowd wanes.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4vORiEQ7vc88OBghyphenhyphenkRExioqDXeuMMDcWXaQ13Y-Ma31Wmdw_l9Vdm6I_ol5RtMlRVTbRa9oL5faTXI2m1j70qaPkUb-lja4cA6jtZO8rpY0coE4rDuiS2nj48ZB1BQNon3N6ZoyDUow/s1200/IMG_0092-0121a.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4vORiEQ7vc88OBghyphenhyphenkRExioqDXeuMMDcWXaQ13Y-Ma31Wmdw_l9Vdm6I_ol5RtMlRVTbRa9oL5faTXI2m1j70qaPkUb-lja4cA6jtZO8rpY0coE4rDuiS2nj48ZB1BQNon3N6ZoyDUow/s320/IMG_0092-0121a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>1:21 AM</b><div>Well into the marathon's <a href="https://ahab-beckons.blogspot.com/2011/01/graveyard-shift.html" target="_blank">Graveyard Shift</a>.<br /><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFgyGFjDJvcb-Bywxe8Of1iMTFqALc977EUq0VvpwhteHehNWI2g4gyVn_v1YGh4qzhxURDEf9HhoghifuaeoCHe6u1KLrmamdDcugwDnWq6nszvgHAoqZj6PzB9fTF9iJHrGee_by5ZQ/s1200/IMG_0100-0354a.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFgyGFjDJvcb-Bywxe8Of1iMTFqALc977EUq0VvpwhteHehNWI2g4gyVn_v1YGh4qzhxURDEf9HhoghifuaeoCHe6u1KLrmamdDcugwDnWq6nszvgHAoqZj6PzB9fTF9iJHrGee_by5ZQ/s320/IMG_0100-0354a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>3:50 AM</b></div><div>The readers continue while Watch Officers confer on the line-up.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKw2CkpsSD0qmZWCn3gXkRU4NJxM9oREMLftsQqkpzkKZqBbUxqJP3OtDnisOAuVtLLW_Pv6cdXMVos9rzEMik2LgpfoS74Pn_vQ8mZ_Sp8oSrrixF9AWEbZ2yqZhbSEnH_h4PUwmNQzU/s1200/IMG_0114-0541a.jpg" style="clear: left; 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King; <i>Trying Leviathan</i>, D. Graham Burnett; Toni Morrison's essay on Melville in <i>The Source of Self-Regard</i>. <nobr>M-D</nobr> Chapter 61 changes Ishmael's view of the whale. Lemuel Shaw as surrogate father to Melville, and some connection to Captain Vere in <i>Billy Budd</i>. Melville got books from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Athen%C3%A6um" target="_blank">Boston Athenaeum</a> through Shaw. Was M. "high on something" when he wrote <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradise_of_Bachelors_and_the_Tartarus_of_Maids" target="_blank">Tartarus of Maids</a></i>?</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqGu-iTS4tkbNvg5-WPPxokEWpfE8L2HwHrCSu6lQQRK1M-tBT6SPunc_t0KB0zGkuH7pB3-4Q9wncG0gUJSckvtfZXLyjZtb42caN8MhHGsNNZ8aE5l9EI3SYY9w8ELwPgiwRbTRGESI/s1200/IMG_0130-ch135-1236p.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqGu-iTS4tkbNvg5-WPPxokEWpfE8L2HwHrCSu6lQQRK1M-tBT6SPunc_t0KB0zGkuH7pB3-4Q9wncG0gUJSckvtfZXLyjZtb42caN8MhHGsNNZ8aE5l9EI3SYY9w8ELwPgiwRbTRGESI/s320/IMG_0130-ch135-1236p.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>12:35 PM</b></div><div>Full house for the finale. <br /><div>The female readers of the last chapters were a pleasant respite from the hoarse growl usually voiced for Ahab.<div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAwWzwAGzUlJvhtXJh5cAxQNGT-rAIJK5R7gX-fdF_npYDO3OEhyAlJoNlWzS86Ek8_M5K3c_9kboVGv9yQv4GPSpaNpWT_QtRModl6qvk3bDzoDtqgNnuctLdTNw16-PQC4SuRlun9IU/s1200/IMG_0300-passport.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAwWzwAGzUlJvhtXJh5cAxQNGT-rAIJK5R7gX-fdF_npYDO3OEhyAlJoNlWzS86Ek8_M5K3c_9kboVGv9yQv4GPSpaNpWT_QtRModl6qvk3bDzoDtqgNnuctLdTNw16-PQC4SuRlun9IU/s320/IMG_0300-passport.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2AUKtc5V4GqlTj1bMHNaVoA5odROo_qrwSYewSpuj5tKIFwf8TRCH2Gqmvfkqim_wXcDiZa5gQLx5a08PpE54BCa5w6TIQoPCJzuxxNAwxacckKwlDyuMP4ileD3leQUeCiW-6pKDRUw/s1200/IMG_0118-oil.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2AUKtc5V4GqlTj1bMHNaVoA5odROo_qrwSYewSpuj5tKIFwf8TRCH2Gqmvfkqim_wXcDiZa5gQLx5a08PpE54BCa5w6TIQoPCJzuxxNAwxacckKwlDyuMP4ileD3leQUeCiW-6pKDRUw/s320/IMG_0118-oil.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Sperm Whale Oil [Museum Collection 2016.85]</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div>Gansevoorthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13190512916384175164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243136221383882465.post-29562383294324426652020-04-16T17:19:00.000-04:002020-04-17T17:26:02.097-04:00All Astir...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Keep an eye on the Whaling Museum <a href="https://www.whalingmuseum.org/" target="_blank">website</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/WhalingMuseum/videos" target="_blank">YouTube channel</a>, and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/whalingmuseum" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> during this shelter-in-place period! The museum staff are busy making their collection available on the Web, often with expert interpretation.<br />
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A Virtual MDM</h4>
Beginning Friday, April 17, at 5 P.M. Eastern, the museum will make available a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7VSI73mTDirUo77od8hREHfIaKv_el2o" target="_blank">one-hour video segment</a> from a recent Moby Dick Marathon. The closing chapters will be read by folks currently in "lockdown" at home.<br />
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Tours of the Collection</h4>
The <a href="https://www.whalingmuseum.org/museum-from-home/" target="_blank">Museum from Home</a> series is an ever-expanding set of resources for students and parents.<br />
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<li>Check out the "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7VSI73mTDioCFO9-jiDNHFF8RfcGgAql" target="_blank">Educator Website</a>" video series.</li>
<li>Go behind-the-scenes with the "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7VSI73mTDiqMDsXIUmaMKs9oZWpL1BAB" target="_blank">Collections Show & Tell</a>" series.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.whalingmuseum.org/explore/collections/database" target="_blank">Search</a> the museum's entire trove of objects and photographs. Scrimshaw <a href="https://collections.whalingmuseum.org/RediscoveryProficioPublicSearch/ShowImageView.aspx?32269+objects" target="_blank">knuckle-duster</a> anyone?</li>
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The current exhibition of Dutch maritime paintings, <i>De Wind is Op!</i>, is now behind closed doors, but a wealth of material is available online:<br />
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<li>The entire (4.5 hour) opening <a href="https://youtu.be/_fyMJMMJ9Rs" target="_blank">symposium</a>.</li>
<li>A <a href="https://youtu.be/3zRUV9i-nWs" target="_blank">tour </a>of the works, with commentary by Chief Curator, Christina Connett Brophy.</li>
<li>The complete exhibition <a href="https://1thz9pe6wg37jz9s1eei99om-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/NBWM-Dutch-Online-Catalog-v3-2019-1018.pdf" target="_blank">catalog</a>(!). Grab a copy while you can.</li>
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If you have wandered the museum during the Marathon's "<a href="http://ahab-beckons.blogspot.com/2011/01/graveyard-shift.html" target="_blank">Graveyard Shift</a>" and browsed the items in Turner Gallery (where we used to read <a href="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2d/28/f9/2d28f95e4dc82925a9f4ea2f0855bca8.jpg" target="_blank"><i>Cetology</i></a>), you'll want to watch these videos guided by <a href="https://youtu.be/ccsYyzywBVE" target="_blank">Akeia de Barros Gomes</a>, Curator of Social History; and <a href="https://youtu.be/Yd5oAvUpNEo" target="_blank">Michael Dyer</a>, Curator of Maritime History.<br />
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Speaking of Maritime Museums</h4>
The Mystic Seaport Museum offers its share of <a href="https://stories.mysticseaport.org/" target="_blank">digital treasures</a>, including a cool "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrPiQIeOoQZEZbXZr0vYR6lBU6raDIPmo" target="_blank">Behind the Scenes</a>" series.<br />
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Other Avenues</h4>
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<li>Explore the <a href="https://melvillesociety.org/" target="_blank">Melville Society</a> website, particularly the set of <a href="https://melvillesociety.org/blogs" target="_blank">blogs</a> by MDM pillar Robert K. Wallace.</li>
<li>Get lost in the <a href="https://melville.electroniclibrary.org/index.html" target="_blank">Melville Electronic Library</a> and <a href="http://melvillesmarginalia.org/" target="_blank">Melville's Marginalia</a>.</li>
<li>Search through Melville's papers at <a href="https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/24/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&op%5B%5D=&q%5B%5D=herman+melville&field%5B%5D=&commit=Search++&limit=&from_year%5B%5D=&to_year%5B%5D=" target="_blank">Harvard's Houghton Library</a>, like his <a href="https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:7329560$1i" target="_blank">letter to Hawthorne</a> dated Aug. 13, 1852. (Zoom in and try to decipher his scrawl.)</li>
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Gansevoorthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13190512916384175164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243136221383882465.post-72866803786481591032020-03-25T00:25:00.000-04:002020-03-25T00:36:23.428-04:00In your "insular Tahiti"...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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These recordings of M-D could ease the monotony of isolation. All are available as free, downloadable .mp3 files. So load up your audio device of choice for those home-bound sessions of low-impact aerobics.<br />
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<li>Both <a href="https://librivox.org/moby-dick-by-herman-melville" target="_blank">Librivox </a>and <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28794" target="_blank">Project Gutenberg</a> offer the same reading by Stewart Wills. He's a good, clear speaker, not overly <i>dramatic</i>. Slightly annoying is the 15-second intro to each file: "This is a Librivox recording, ..." There are 44 .mp3 files, including <i>Etymology</i> and <i>Extracts</i>. The Librivox site lets you download all the recordings in a single .zip file (677 MB); on the Gutenberg site, you can only download each file separately. (Scroll down the Gutenberg page to see the files in .mp3 format.)</li>
<li>The recordings of the <a href="http://www.mobydickbigread.com/" target="_blank">Moby Dick Big Read</a> were posted in weekly installments back in 2013 (and <a href="http://ahab-beckons.blogspot.com/2013/02/proceed-to-put-on-lasting-record.html" target="_blank">duly reviewed</a>). The drivers of this project, Angela Cockayne and Philip Hoare, recruited as readers prominent actors, authors, and artists; as well as TV/radio hosts, scientists, sailors, students, and a Prime Minister. The voices are varied, and nearly all the readings are top-notch. (Tilda Swinton reading <i>Loomings </i>is refreshingly unexpected.) You have to download each of the <u>136 chapters</u> separately (no <i>Etymology</i> or <i>Extracts</i>), via the "down arrow" icon at the top-right corner of the player.</li>
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One caveat: All of these readings are from some copy of M-D that does not include the corrections made (by Hayford, Parker, and Tanselle) for the <a href="https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/moby-dick-or-whale-0" target="_blank">1988 Northwestern-Newberry edition</a> (discussed <a href="http://ahab-beckons.blogspot.com/2011/03/when-leviathan-is-text-7.html" target="_blank">previously</a>).<br />
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The Whaling Museum just <a href="https://www.whalingmuseum.org/visit" target="_blank">announced</a> that it will close immediately due to "the growing concerns related to the coronavirus."</h4>
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The Museum plans to remain shuttered to the public through March 27, 2020. Consult the Museum's website for updates.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Think of the fevers, yellow and bilious! Beware of the horrible plague!</span>
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<span style="margin-left: 5em;">- Chapter 71</span></blockquote>
...a time to hunker down with a good book.Gansevoorthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13190512916384175164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243136221383882465.post-58424065147713790372020-02-27T16:34:00.000-05:002020-02-27T16:37:59.958-05:00Sunspots & Whale Strandings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Biologists have already demonstrated that <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/science/moths-magnetic-australia.html" target="_blank" title="">many</a> <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/science/sea-turtles-magnetic-field.html" target="_blank" title="">animals</a> can <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/science/cardinalfish-magnetic-coral-reefs.html" target="_blank" title="">navigate</a> by somehow sensing <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/science/north-magnetic-pole-model.html" target="_blank" title="">Earth’s magnetic field lines</a>.
Gray whales, which migrate over 10,000 miles a year through a
featureless expanse of blue, might be relying on a similar hidden sense.</i><br />
- <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/science/whales-sunspots.html" target="_blank"><i>New York Times</i></a>, 25 Feb. 2020</blockquote>
The <i>Times </i>article quoted above summarizes a study published in <i><a href="https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)30028-2" target="_blank">Current Biology</a></i>; a collaboration of Duke University biologists and an astronomer from Chicago's Adler Planetarium. The research looks at strandings of healthy gray whales, chosen because they have "one of the longest migrations of any mammal, an extensive history in the stranding database, and [are] near-shore migrator[s]." (Near-shore is where "small navigation errors increase the risk of stranding.")<br />
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Previous studies have correlated these strandings with solar magnetic storms, but were the strandings the result of alterations of the Earth's geomagnetic field, or did the storms somehow "disrupt the animal's receptor itself"? <br />
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Examining the influence of climate/season, <a href="https://spawx.nwra.com/spawx/ap.html" target="_blank">magnetic field displacement</a>, and radio-frequency noise, the researchers conclude that the whales' navigation errors are "best explained by increases in RF noise rather than alterations to the magnetic field." The analog that comes to mind is headlights of oncoming cars when you're walking at night.<br />
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One of the authors, biologist Jesse Granger, notes that such RF noise is not the sole cause of gray whale strandings. Her hope, according to the <i>Times</i>, is "to unlock the secrets of magnetic navigation."<br />
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We are now <b>four weeks</b> from the 24th annual Moby-Dick Marathon.<br />
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If you're planning your first MDM, you'll find some practical advice in <a href="http://ahab-beckons.blogspot.com/2011/12/get-ready.html">this post</a> from 2011 and in the "Essentials" section at the right of this page. Check out the Whaling Museum's <a href="https://www.whalingmuseum.org/programs/24th-annual-moby-dick-marathon/" target="_blank">MDM page</a>, too.<br />
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For stay-at-homes, a live video stream will commence at 11:30 AM, Saturday.<br />
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If you are set to be a Reader, here's a <a href="https://mobydickmarathonnyc.tumblr.com/post/102469706540/weird-whale-words-from-our-guide-for-readers" target="_blank">list of uncommon words</a> you might encounter (courtesy of the 2014 NYC MDM).<br />
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...and be sure to follow <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MDM24" target="_blank">#MDM24</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/mobydickmarathon" target="_blank">#mobydickmarathon</a> on Twitter.Gansevoorthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13190512916384175164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243136221383882465.post-84411020520157420012019-12-02T17:12:00.003-05:002019-12-02T17:13:36.714-05:00Latest News from the Feejees - 11<h4>
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Enjoying its <a href="https://americanrepertorytheater.org/shows-events/moby-dick/" target="_blank">world premiere</a> in Cambridge, MA, through January 12.<br />
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Let's stow away January's MDM before the <a href="https://www.whalingmuseum.org/programs/24th-annual-moby-dick-marathon/" target="_blank">2020 event</a> is upon us.<br />
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MDM23 was one for the books — the bicentennial of Melville's birth was coming in August, the weather was mild (for January), and the roads were clear and dry. The result: "<a href="https://twitter.com/whalingmuseum/status/1082275607692693506" target="_blank">a record crowd</a>." The museum reported "over 1500 through the doors" during the three days. (<i>Ahem</i>, "over 2900" were <a href="https://whalingmuseumblog.org/2012/01/11/moby-dick-marathon-set-records/" target="_blank">reported</a> for MDM16.)<br />
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Things proceeded along the lines of past MDMs, with the introduction of <i>Stump the Scholars</i> in 2011. That's MDMs number <a href="http://ahab-beckons.blogspot.com/search/label/MDM15" target="_blank">15</a>, <a href="http://ahab-beckons.blogspot.com/search/label/MDM16" target="_blank">16</a>, <a href="http://ahab-beckons.blogspot.com/search/label/MDM17" target="_blank">17</a>, <a href="http://ahab-beckons.blogspot.com/search/label/MDM18" target="_blank">18</a>, <a href="http://ahab-beckons.blogspot.com/search/label/MDM19" target="_blank">19</a>, <a href="http://ahab-beckons.blogspot.com/search/label/MDM20" target="_blank">20</a>, <a href="http://ahab-beckons.blogspot.com/search/label/MDM21" target="_blank">21</a>, and <a href="http://ahab-beckons.blogspot.com/search/label/MDM22" target="_blank">22</a>!<br />
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10:00 AM <br />
It's "Stump," with MC Michael Dyer of the museum, and scholars Wyn Kelley (M.I.T), Timothy Marr (UNC), Christopher Sten (George Washington U.), Jennifer Baker (NYU), Robert Wallace (U. of Kentucky), and Mary K. Bercaw Edwards (Univ. of Conn & Mystic Seaport).<br />
Michael was feeling generous. At least nine "I Stumped..." buttons were awarded.<br />
Over the years, we in the audience have learned that you can't stump this group with quotidian queries. Our questions have become ever more abstruse, often causing deliberations to devolve into an open, and informative, discussion. That's entertainment!<br />
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On the subject of scholars, I hesitate to mention the "Chat with a Melville scholar" sessions — they are in danger of outgrowing the room. Still, if you want to expand your appreciation of Melville, and fill some gaps in your erudition, make a point of dropping in. This is a very patient and generous group of scholars/educators with a wide range of backgrounds and specialties!<br />
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11:23 AM - after "Stump"<br />
Familiar faces, and a welcome sighting of Peter Whittemore, HM's g-g-grandson.<br />
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The live stream was moved to YouTube this year — better results for viewers, fewer headaches for Michael Lapides & staff.<br />
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1:18 PM<br />
New Bedford Mayor, John Mitchell, reading Chapter 6 as is customary.<br />
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1:21 PM<br />
To the Seamen's Bethel for chapters 7-9.<br />
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9:53 PM - still a decent crowd.<br />
The MDM is <u>always evolving</u>! This year the usual readers' lecterns were replaced by comfy chairs. The atmosphere was less like a religious service and more like a cozy neighborhood book club (or <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/specialfeatures/russell-baker-biography/" target="_blank">Russell Baker's intros to Masterpiece Theatre</a>).<br />
Sightlines were not great for those in the back. Maybe the museum could raise the readers' area a bit for MDM24?<br />
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1:43 AM<br />
The sweet, still heart of the MDM.<br />
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6:19 AM<br />
Tjitske, from the Netherlands, reads Chapter 94 in Dutch at her ninth(?) MDM.<br />
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Tjitske's audience.<br />
It's just after noon for her friends at home watching the live stream.<br />
(Impossible to discern at this resolution, but that's Ira in the other reader's chair.)<br />
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6:41 AM<br />
The museum's Harbor View Gallery is aptly named.<br />
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11:02 AM<br />
Who doesn't love a good shipwreck? The audience swells for the dramatic finale.<br />
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Monday morning...<br />
For safety's sake, get a good night's sleep, <i>then </i>drive home.<br />
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<a href="https://www.whalingmuseum.org/programs/24th-annual-moby-dick-marathon/" target="_blank"><b>Registration</b> </a>opens at 12:01 AM, Nov. 8, for readers at the 24th Moby-Dick Marathon, the Portuguese Marathon, and the Children's Marathon. (MDM24 is Jan. 3-5, 2020.)<br />
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You can also enter the <u>drawing</u> for a seat at the historic Seamen’s Bethel, where chapters 7-9 are read/performed.<br />
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Don't dally. Registration usually closes within a few weeks.<br />
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(Yes, the twin podia are gone, replaced for MDM23 by two comfy chairs.)Gansevoorthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13190512916384175164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243136221383882465.post-15805186917177266722019-04-25T12:27:00.000-04:002019-06-26T23:03:40.856-04:00Let a hundred flowers blossom - 2019<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Other MDMs in 2019</h3>
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For those who may be hesitant to venture to New Bedford in January, here are a few alternatives to note.<br />
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<b>April 26-28</b>: The fourth annual <a href="http://provincetownlibrary.org/2019-moby-dick-marathon/" target="_blank">Moby-Dick Marathon Reading</a> at the Provincetown public library. This reading is spread over three days, so you can enjoy a bit of springtime in P'town. (Apologies for the late notice.)<br />
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<b>June 7-9</b>: <a href="https://caniosculturalcafe.wordpress.com/moby-dick-marathon/" target="_blank">Canio's Books</a> in Sag Harbor returns with a multi-day MDM. A raft of events leads up to the marathon, including a talk by <b>Mary K. Bercaw-Edwards</b> on May 4.<br />
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<b>July 31-August 1</b>: The <u>34th</u>(!) annual <a href="https://www.mysticseaport.org/event/moby-dick-marathon/" target="_blank">Moby-Dick Marathon</a> at the Mystic Seaport Museum. This reading takes place aboard the whaleship <i><a href="https://ahab-beckons.blogspot.com/2012/12/restoration-of-charles-w-morgan.html" target="_blank">Charles W. Morgan</a></i>. Attendance is limited; call to reserve space if staying overnight. August 1 is Melville's 200th birthday—expect a special MDM at Mystic.<br />
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<b>August 1-4 ?</b>: The third annual <a href="http://berkshirehistory.org/uncategorized/moby-dick-marathon-at-arrowhead/" target="_blank">Moby-Dick reading</a> at Arrowhead Farm. This reading is spread over several days, and includes a hike up Monument Mountain. Details haven't been posted yet.<br />
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<b>October ?</b>: At the San Francisco <a href="https://www.nps.gov/safr/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?event=0685B34C-9678-A7D9-1CD1F35CEC0CBFC5" target="_blank">Maritime National Historical Park</a>, promises a "uniquely San Franciscan" MDM. Last done here in 2018. Details not yet posted; see <a href="https://www.sfmobydickmarathon.org/" target="_blank">sfmobydickmarathon.org</a>. Commemorates Melville's <a href="https://www.sfmobydickmarathon.org/#melville-in-san-francisco-section" target="_blank">brief visit to San Fran</a> in 1860.<br />
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<b>November 9-10</b>: The Rosenbach Museum repeats its annual (since 2017) MDM at the <a href="http://www.phillyseaport.org/" target="_blank">Independence Seaport Museum</a> in Philadelphia. Watch the Rosenbach <a href="https://rosenbach.org/calendar/" target="_blank">calendar</a> for details. [Hat-tip to <a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/08987255111475119419" target="_blank">Prof</a>.]<br />
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The November <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mdmnyc" target="_blank">New York City MDM</a> was bi-annual for a while, but appears to be in hibernation.<br />
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Missed the MDM at the <a href="https://newberry.org/moby-dick-read-a-thon" target="_blank">Newberry Library</a>, Jan. 19-20. This does not appear to be an annual event.<br />
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Missed the M-D <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mobydickmarathonread/" target="_blank">Marathon Read of Virginia</a>, March 21-22. Their Facebook page has links to an archived video stream. This does not appear to be an annual event.<br />
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The Nantucket Historical Association had an MDM in 2014. This past February they offered a two-hour <a href="https://nha.org/nha-presents-a-multilingual-moby-dick-reading-event/" target="_blank">Multi-lingual Moby-Dick Reading Event</a>. A full MDM might return some year.<br />
<br />Gansevoorthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13190512916384175164noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243136221383882465.post-48058995532967713922018-12-30T19:50:00.000-05:002018-12-30T20:02:54.709-05:00If you can't make it to New Bedford...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>MDM23</b> is now days away. The <a href="https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=41.6378&lon=-70.9309" target="_blank">weather forecast</a> is for chilly, but dry, conditions, so don't miss this opportunity to join the (quiet) celebration.<br />
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If this is your first time, check out the <a href="https://ahab-beckons.blogspot.com/p/m-d-marathon-overview.html" target="_blank">Marathon Overview</a> page to get an idea of what you can expect. Links in the "Essentials" section (at right) can help you pack; and find parking, food, and lodgings.<br />
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If you can't make it to New Bedford, follow Twitter hashtag <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/mdm23" target="_blank">#mdm23</a>, and check the <a href="https://www.whalingmuseum.org/programs/moby-dick-marathon-2019/" target="_blank">Whaling Museum's website</a> for a link to the live video stream. The reading proper will start Saturday at Noon, January 5.<br />
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If it's easier for you to get to Chicago, consider attending the <a href="https://www.newberry.org/moby-dick-read-a-thon" target="_blank">Moby-Dick Read-a-Thon</a>, January 19-20, at the Newberry Library.<br />
<br />Gansevoorthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13190512916384175164noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243136221383882465.post-57201980654240258512018-12-28T12:09:00.000-05:002018-12-28T12:09:46.635-05:00Japan to Resume Commercial Whaling<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Bob Rocha, Director of Education and Science Programs, sums this up nicely on the <a href="https://whalingmuseumblog.org/2018/12/26/japan-to-resume-commercial-whaling/" target="_blank">Whaling Museum Blog</a>.<br />
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Also noted in the <i>New York Times</i>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/world/asia/japan-whaling-withdrawal.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
<br />Gansevoorthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13190512916384175164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243136221383882465.post-52793254457193332672018-12-12T12:30:00.000-05:002018-12-12T19:51:21.433-05:00Norton Critical Editions of Moby-Dick x3<div style="border-bottom: 1px solid #333333; margin-bottom: 0.5em; width: 70%;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Norton Critical 1st, 2nd, and 3rd -- Collect 'em all.</span></div>
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I just got the "<a href="https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?bi=0&bx=off&cm_sp=SearchF-_-Advtab1-_-Results&ds=30&pn=norton&recentlyadded=all&sortby=17&sts=t&tn=moby+dick&yrh=2018&yrl=2015" target="_blank">Third Norton Critical Edition</a>" of <i>Moby-Dick </i>(NCE3). I had to order it through a third-party seller on Amazon, and it shipped from Europe. At the moment, it doesn't appear to be available at all on Amazon, whether from Mr. Bezos himself or a third-party seller. Oddly, even <a href="http://books.wwnorton.com/books/webad.aspx?id=11008" target="_blank">the publisher's website</a> shows only the second edition right now. A number of sellers at <a href="https://www.abebooks.com/?cm_sp=TopNav-_-Results-_-Logo" target="_blank">ABE Books</a> (which has become an affiliate of Amazon) <b>are</b> offering it, however.<br />
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First, let me say how surprised, pleased, and honored I am to see Gansevoort's (mainly) and my humble efforts mentioned on page 687, in Mary K. Bercaw Edwards and Wyn Kelley's essay (written specially for NCE3), "Melville and the Spoken Word." The essay digs deep below the surface of the <i>Moby-Dick</i> Marathon phenomenon, which is more extensive than even I had realized. Of all the books that could have inspired so mighty a sound, why <i>Moby-Dick</i>?<br />
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Second, I am surprised and pleased to see that, while NCE3 does not have an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_apparatus" target="_blank">apparatus</a> as extensive as that of NCE1, the editor, Hershel "Mr. Melville" Parker, has provided a convenient list of emendations, something that was entirely absent from NCE2. (This is the first Norton Critical <i>Moby-Dick</i> not to be co-edited by <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/20/arts/harrison-mosher-hayford-85-professor-and-melville-expert.html" target="_blank">Harrison Hayford</a>, who died in 2001, shortly before NCE2 came out.)<br />
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Between NCE1 and NCE2, the explanatory footnotes to the text itself were greatly and usefully expanded. As far as I could tell from a quick spot-check, the footnotes in NCE3 have not changed from those in NCE2 (although a few have been split into multiple notes). That's all to the good, as far as I'm concerned -- the quantity of footnotes in NCE2 was just right.<br />
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This is a new edition because the assortment of goodies at the end of the volume has been switched up, just as with NCE2. Among the newcomers are Prof. Parker's "Glimpses of Melville as Performer" and six essays under the heading "<i>Moby-Dick</i> in the Twenty-First Century" (where Mary K. Bercaw Edwards and Wyn Kelley's entry appears).<br />
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But this is only a glimpse of how NCE3's critical caboose differs from that of NCE2. Though my opinion is not entirely disinterested, all three editions are well worth having.<br />
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<a href="http://ahab-beckons.blogspot.com/2011/02/norton-critical-editions-moby-dick.html" target="_blank">Norton Critical Editions Moby Dick</a> [NCE2 vs NCE1]<br />
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<i>Added by Gansevoort, 12/12/2018.</i><br />
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NCE3 is a "tighter" publication than <a href="http://ahab-beckons.blogspot.com/2011/05/when-leviathan-is-text-11.html" target="_blank">NCE2</a>. The pages are the same height, but are slightly narrower (by about 3/32"). The font, font size, and leading are identical. (See the <a href="http://ahab-beckons.blogspot.com/2011/03/typeface-tally.html" target="_blank">Typeface Tally</a>.) The width of the text block on the page is the same; however, top and bottom margins are reduced in NCE3, displaying 51 lines of text per page where NCE2 displayed 50. (The line breaks have changed, too; usually, but not always, rendering the same text in fewer lines.)<br />
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The net result is that NCE3 presents <i>Etymology</i> through <i>FINIS</i> in 405 pages vs. NCE2's 421—3.8% fewer pages. Less wood is good, right?<br />
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Measuring the thickness of 100 pages in each edition with calipers, the paper stock in NCE3 is about 14% thinner than that of NCE2. (The stock feels almost like <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=XV8XAAAAYAAJ&dq=moby-dick&pg=PA396#v=onepage&q=bible%20leaves&f=false" target="_blank">bible leaves</a>.) The show-through is about the same in each.<br />
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Hershel Parker, now in his eighties, has blogged that NCE3 marks "<a href="https://fragmentsfromawritingdesk.blogspot.com/2017/11/no-hardback-yet-for-nu-press-book-but.html" target="_blank">the end of a long career</a>." The three Norton Critical editions represent over fifty years of rigorous work. Thank you, Mr. Parker.<br />
<br />Lemuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15472255526491496651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243136221383882465.post-75200008364031085172018-12-12T01:29:00.000-05:002018-12-16T13:40:39.967-05:00Not for the squeamish<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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The brilliant BBC podcast, <i>Witness</i>, recently posted an interview with a seaman who worked on an industrial whaler in the 1950's/60's—"A personal account of the huge Antarctic industry which left whales on the brink of extinction."<br />
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(9 minutes long) <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswsp5" target="_blank">Listen or download</a>.<br />
<br />Gansevoorthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13190512916384175164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243136221383882465.post-6725036864908395712018-11-07T10:08:00.000-05:002018-11-07T10:08:17.515-05:00Reserve your Bethel spot & Reader slot!<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.whalingmuseum.org/programs/moby-dick-marathon-2019/" target="_blank">Registration</a></b> is open for readers at the Moby-Dick Marathon, the Portuguese Marathon, and the Children's Marathon. You can also enter the <u>drawing</u> for a seat at the historic Seamen’s Bethel, where chapters 7-9 are read/performed.<br />
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Don't dally. Registration closes at 5:00 PM EST, November 30.Gansevoorthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13190512916384175164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243136221383882465.post-86599464967907501992018-10-23T20:28:00.001-04:002018-10-23T20:28:51.188-04:00MDM23 is official!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The <b>23rd Moby-Dick Marathon</b> is coming, January 4-6. <a href="https://www.whalingmuseum.org/programs/moby-dick-marathon-2019/" target="_blank">Details</a> are now on the Whaling Museum site.<br />
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Save the date. Plan your transportation. Make room reservations.<br />
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2019 being the bicentennial of Melville's birth, we can expect something special.Gansevoorthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13190512916384175164noreply@blogger.com018 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford, MA 02740, USA41.6352087 -70.92311010000003116.1131742 -112.23170410000003 67.1572432 -29.614516100000031tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243136221383882465.post-36315294748634200402018-10-20T20:49:00.000-04:002018-10-23T21:18:52.742-04:00Unknown Melville manuscript found?Roger Stritmatter, humanities professor at <a href="https://coppin.edu/" target="_blank">Coppin State University</a> (Baltimore), believes he may have found the manuscript of "a satiric mock-newspaper" penned by Herman Melville.<br />
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Read all about it in the <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bs-md-herman-melville-manuscript-20181017-story.html" target="_blank">Baltimore Sun</a>.<br />
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Hat-tip <a href="https://twitter.com/melvillequotes" target="_blank">@MelvilleQuotes</a>.<br />
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To celebrate Melville's birthday, the <a href="http://www.berkshirehistory.org/" target="_blank">Berkshire County Historical Society</a> organized five days of events at/near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrowhead_(Herman_Melville_House)" target="_blank">Arrowhead farm</a>. The centerpiece of their "Melville Week" was a (second annual) <i>Moby-Dick</i> marathon reading.<br />
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Like MDMs in New York and <a href="http://provincetownlibrary.org/event/moby-dick-marathon-reading/2018-04-27/" target="_blank">Provincetown</a>, the BHS spread its reading across several days. Such an arrangement attracts local folks, who can sleep in their own beds and return fresh, but discourages out-of-towners from attending more than a couple of days. We made it to the fourth, final day.<br />
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Will there be an Arrowhead MDM for Melville's 200th birthday next year? We can hope. One might dream of a reading that takes place inside the actual home, and runs through the night to finish on August 1. (Are there any reports of hauntings at Arrowhead?)<br />
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The 2018 reading was held in the barn that houses Arrowhead's ticket office and museum shop.</div>
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Peter Bergman, Director of Communications for the BHS, recruited readers as we entered. He explained: read from the "podium copy" until the bell rings, then make a pencil mark where you stopped.</div>
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Each person read for ten minutes, after which Peter said something like, "Sarah, thank you so much," and called the next reader. Things proceeded calmly.<br />
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Like the <a href="http://ahab-beckons.blogspot.com/2018/08/road-trip-mystic-seaport-mdm.html" target="_blank">Mystic MDM</a>, no microphone was necessary. The group grew to no more than fifteen.
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One reader stood out. She was maybe ten years old(?) and had very little problem with the knotty text. All the best to her, and her family!</div>
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At the "Finis," Peter announced that over the four days of the marathon there were 85 different readers, plus 23 folks who simply listened.</div>
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Thanks to the volunteers and staff of the Berkshire County Historical Society for a well run, "neighborly" MDM.</div>
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<br />Gansevoorthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13190512916384175164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243136221383882465.post-62200828858396001872018-08-04T15:19:00.000-04:002019-01-07T15:14:31.572-05:00Road Trip - Mystic Seaport MDM<i>Edited 10/20/2018 to add note about tick-borne infection.</i><br />
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Ahab Beckons <i>finally</i> made it to the longest-running Moby-Dick Marathon—that organized by the <a href="http://mysticseaport.org/" target="_blank">Mystic Seaport Museum</a>. This (2018) was its thirty-third annual outing. Mystic sticks to a July 31 start, ending on August 1 (Melville's birthday), no matter the days of the week. If you're not willing to call in sick, tough toenails.<br />
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Side note: New Bedford adhered to a January 3 start (the date of Melville's sailing on the Acushnet) until MDM14 in 2010, if memory serves. It then settled on the first <u>weekend</u> after January 1, greatly increasing attendance.<br />
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<li>The entire reading takes place aboard the whaleship <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Morgan_(ship)" target="_blank">Charles W. Morgan</a></i>. Overnight space is limited. Call a few weeks ahead to reserve. Details on the <a href="https://www.mysticseaport.org/event/moby-dick-marathon/" target="_blank">museum website</a>.</li>
<li>There is ample free parking across the street from the Seaport; well signed.</li>
<li>You'll need to purchase admission to the Seaport area. Online tickets receive a 10% discount.</li>
<li>There is Wi-Fi in the Seaport area; spotty, as you'd guess. The entrance desk will give you the password.</li>
<li>Food and drink are not allowed on the <i>Morgan</i>. Water bottles were permitted. Some folks left their bag of provisions at the foot of the gangway, then left the ship to make a picnic. There is also a pub and sandwich shop on the grounds.</li>
<li>Experienced marathoners brought folding chairs. Recommended.</li>
<li>There is not a lot of shade or rain cover on deck; mosquitoes could be a problem; it can be chilly and damp at night. Be prepared.</li>
<li>The deck is not lit. Bring a lantern/flashlight/headlamp to read & maneuver.</li>
<li>Lots of folks slept on deck; bring a pad, pillow, and sleeping bag. Some slept below, where it was warm, stuffy, and brightly lit. Earplugs and a sleep mask are the ticket.</li>
<li>Organizers maintained a sign-up sheet by chapter number. Each reader delivered an <u>entire</u> chapter. (Yes, even <i>The Town Ho's Story</i>!) If you have a favorite chapter, talk to the staff early.</li>
<li>Check with the entrance desk if you want to leave the Seaport. There should be no problem getting back in.</li>
<li>The Seaport area is closed from 6 P.M. until 9 A.M. The marathon staff will tell you how to get out/in after hours.</li>
<li>Don't mess with the ropes (sheets, halyards, and stays) or belaying pins!</li>
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The <i>Morgan</i> has a tiny cabin (built for a captain's seasick wife) in the center of the deck, just before the mizzen-mast. Readers stand aft of the mainmast and address the audience sitting on either side of that cabin.<br />
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"Mr. Melville" recites the <i>Loomings</i> chapter from memory(!); something of a tradition, I gather. Sorry I didn't get his name, or thank him for his fine performance.<br />
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There is no podium, no microphone. Almost all readers are clearly audible; some painfully so. Every reader gets a round of applause when finished.<br />
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The ship remains open to museum visitors. Tourists filter through the reading and stare at us as if we're some weird exhibit.<br />
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<b>3:30 P.M.</b> A group of staff members boards and goes about reefing the sails for the night. Fascinating, exacting, tough physical work. The reading continues as we try to stay out of their way.<br />
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<b>6 P.M.</b> The museum closes, leaving fewer than twenty of us marathoners to carry on through the night. The sounds of the tourists and the working harbor are replaced by the chirps of crickets and the whine of the I-95.<br />
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<b>5 A.M.</b> BYOL - Bring your own light!<br />
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<b>7 A.M.</b> Staff prepares for another day. An anachronistic truck rolls down the quayside to collect the previous day's trash. Local sportsfolk shoot along the river in their sculls.<br />
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<b>9:30 A.M.</b> Veteran sailor and Melville scholar, <a href="http://ahab-beckons.blogspot.com/2018/05/latest-news-from-feejees-10.html" target="_blank">Mary K. Bercaw Edwards</a> directs staff members as they set the <i>Morgan's</i> sails for the day. She announces that a whale will be sighted soon...<br />
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<b>11:25 A.M. "</b>The Chase — Third Day" <br />
Ahab howls. Mr. Melville waits to read "Epilogue."<br />
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<b>11:30 A.M. </b>A watch in the crow's nest calls "There she blows!" Mary K. and staff demonstrate the lowering of a whaleboat (a non-trivial task).<br />
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<b>11:45 A.M. </b>All ashore to celebrate Melville's 199th birthday with cake!<br />
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Nearly all the readers at Mystic seemed to be very conversant with the text. Their delivery was smooth and confident. This might be a by-product of the marathon falling mid-week when "youngsters" are less able to attend. There were never more than about thirty attendees, so lots of folks read multiple times. (When the marathon falls on a weekend, is the ship overcrowded?)</div>
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All-told, this was a <i>cozy</i> MDM, without the technology and "stage management" of the New Bedford MDM. Nor did Mystic have the ancillary events we love in New Bedford: "Stump the Scholars" and "Scholar Chats." Still, an MDM set on an authentic whaleship in a pretty harbor on a beautiful summer evening is not something to miss.</div>
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Tick-borne infection</h4>
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The south coast of Connecticut is prime country for Lyme disease. Did I pick up a tick on the Morgan (perhaps carried aboard by a mouse), or while strolling the grounds of the Seaport, or while hiking in western CT the week before?</div>
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The day after the Mystic MDM, I began to feel a cold coming on. Within another day or two, this developed into all the symptoms of the flu, minus the congestion. "Flu" in summer leads one to suspect Lyme disease. My doctor put me on doxycycline and took blood. Test results came back quickly. Diagnosis: <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/anaplasmosis/index.html" target="_blank">anaplasmosis</a>—which merited a third week of doxycycline. Now, nearly three months later, crisis seems to have been averted, but I lack the stamina to backpack in the mountains (as I've done every summer for years). Full recovery is expected, but it's slow in coming.</div>
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Other MDMs in 2018</h3>
<i>Edited 7/24/18 to include the San Francisco and Sag Harbor events.</i><br />
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For those who may be hesitant to venture to New Bedford in January, here are a few alternatives to note.<br />
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<b>July 31-August 1</b>: The <u>33rd</u>(!) annual <a href="https://www.mysticseaport.org/event/moby-dick-marathon/" target="_blank">Moby-Dick Marathon</a> at the Mystic Seaport Museum<br />
This reading takes place aboard the whaleship <i><a href="https://ahab-beckons.blogspot.com/2012/12/restoration-of-charles-w-morgan.html" target="_blank">Charles W. Morgan</a></i>. Attendance is limited; call to reserve space if staying overnight.<br />
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<b>August 2-5</b>: The second annual <a href="http://berkshirehistory.org/uncategorized/moby-dick-marathon-at-arrowhead/" target="_blank">Moby-Dick reading</a> at Arrowhead Farm<br />
This reading runs from 10am-5pm for three days, followed on day 4 by a hike up Monument Mountain before returning to Arrowhead to read the concluding chapters.<br />
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<b>October 13-14</b>: At the San Francisco <a href="https://www.nps.gov/safr/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?event=0685B34C-9678-A7D9-1CD1F35CEC0CBFC5" target="_blank">Maritime National Historical Park</a>, promises a "uniquely San Franciscan" MDM. Last done here in 2015. Details at <a href="https://www.sfmobydickmarathon.org/" target="_blank">sfmobydickmarathon.org</a>. Commemorates Melville's <a href="https://www.sfmobydickmarathon.org/#melville-in-san-francisco-section" target="_blank">brief visit to San Fran</a> in 1860.<br />
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Canio's Bookshop in Sag Harbor organized an annual MDM for many years, starting in 1983. The event went dormant for a decade or so, then resurfaced in 2015 and <a href="https://caniosculturalcafe.wordpress.com/moby-dick-marathon/" target="_blank">2017</a>. Will it return in 2019 for Melville's 200th birth year?<br />
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The November <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mdmnyc" target="_blank">New York City MDM</a> was bi-annual for a while, but appears to be in hibernation.<br />
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The Provincetown Public Library had its 3rd annual <a href="http://provincetownlibrary.org/event/moby-dick-marathon-reading/2018-04-27/" target="_blank">MDM in April</a>, but I didn't get the memo. Maybe next year.<br />
<br />Gansevoorthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13190512916384175164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243136221383882465.post-81744235530203303842018-05-25T04:30:00.000-04:002019-01-06T23:12:41.022-05:00Today in HistoryStumbled on <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HBS.Baker.GEN:34584396-2017?n=13" target="_blank">this little document</a> while browsing Harvard Library's fantastic Mirador Viewer: a receipt for $10 paid to Samuel Bartoll on May 25, 1804, for "painting the [Marblehead] Custom house boat including oars, mast, etc.<br />
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Using some white-pages search websites, there was no "Bartoll" or "Bartol" currently listed in Marblehead, Salem, or Lynn.<br />
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<a href="https://www.geni.com/people/Samuel-Bartol-Jr/6000000037601233529" target="_blank">This</a> could be him—born 12/24/1786 in Marblehead, thus 17 years old when this job was done; more likely it was <a href="https://www.geni.com/people/Samuel-Bartol-Drummer-1776-Painter/6000000036299932082" target="_blank">his father</a>, "Samuel Bartol Drummer 1776 W 6 Painter," 39 years old at that time.<br />
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Let's stop now before going farther down the geneological rabbit-hole. A road-trip to Marblehead's cemeteries would be interesting.<br />
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Using blogmate Lemuel's favorite conversion tool, <a href="https://www.measuringworth.com/" target="_blank">Measuring Worth</a>, the current value of that $10 paid to Samuel in 1804 ranges from $195 to $364,000(!). From my ignorance of things economic, it looks like the "labor value" applies, "using the unskilled wage"—<b>$2,730</b> in 2017 dollars.<br />
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Given the scale of the <a href="http://www.harbormasters.org/cities/marblehead.shtml" target="_blank">Marblehead Harbor Master</a>'s current boat, that doesn't sound unreasonable.<br />
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FYI: <a href="http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~bak00286" target="_blank">Here</a> is Harvard's fascinating cache of "customs documents, correspondence, and United States Treasury Department circulars sent to the Marblehead Custom House, dated from 1789 to 1878."Gansevoorthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13190512916384175164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243136221383882465.post-88947589963908407022018-05-23T14:57:00.000-04:002018-10-23T21:59:59.002-04:00Latest News from the Feejees - 10<h3>
50,000,000 <i>Shades of Grey</i> fans can't be wrong...</h3>
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<i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">Edited 10/23/2018 to add final votes.</i></div>
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MDM regulars will recognize <b>Mary K. Bercaw Edwards</b>, making the case for <i>Moby-Dick</i> as the "best-loved book" in <a href="http://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/home/" target="_blank">The Great American Read</a> on PBS. An <a href="https://www.mysticseaport.org/voyage/stellwagen/stellwagen-11/mary-k-bercaw-edwards-all-astir/" target="_blank">experienced sailor</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=bercaw+edwards&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Abercaw+edwards" target="_blank">Melville scholar</a>, and a <a href="http://ahab-beckons.blogspot.com/search?q=bercaw+edwards" target="_blank"><b>pillar</b></a> of MDMs at the Whaling Museum and <a href="https://www.mysticseaport.org/event/moby-dick-marathon/" target="_blank">Mystic Seaport</a>, Ms. Bercaw Edwards knows whereof she speaks.<br />
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The 2-hour broadcast can be streamed on the program's <a href="http://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/home/" target="_blank">home page</a>. Skip to time 56:00 to hear why M-D is that fabled "great American novel."<br />
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It would be petty to gripe that this whole "list & vote" thing is a meaningless popularity contest skewed by the whims of ill-informed adolescents and political/religious zealots, so let's ignore that. No "Top <i>x</i>" list can satisfy everyone. (Where the dickens is Joyce's <i>Ulysses</i>?) Still, taken for what it is, this list might point you to a good read, and might point some wanderer to <i>Moby-Dick</i>.
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10/23/18 - <b>This just in:</b> <i>Moby-Dick</i> ranked as #46 (higher than I would have predicted).<br />
<i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i> was voted #1.</div>
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Gansevoorthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13190512916384175164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243136221383882465.post-40919816543436958192018-04-13T00:30:00.000-04:002018-04-13T00:30:01.662-04:00Beckett's 112th<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Beckett" target="_blank">Samuel Beckett</a>, born on this day in 1906.<br />
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<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=d4VNAAAAYAAJ&dq=moby-dick&pg=PA482#v=snippet&q=%22thinking%20is,%20or%20ought%20to%20be%22&f=false" target="_blank">Ahab</a> in Ch. 135; The Chase.—Third Day<br />
<i>Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a
calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much
for that. And yet, I've sometimes thought my brain was very calm—frozen
calm, this old skull cracks so, like a glass in which the contents
turned to ice, and shiver it. And still this hair is growing now; this
moment growing, and heat must breed it; but no, it's like that sort
of common grass that will grow anywhere, between the earthy clefts of
Greenland ice or in Vesuvius lava.</i><br />
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<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=PaNEaPgzuhEC&lpg=PT22&dq=molloy%20%22writhing%20yet%22&pg=PT22#v=onepage&q=%22it's%20for%20the%20whole%20there%20seems%20to%20be%20no%20spell%22&f=false" target="_blank">Molloy</a><br />
<i>It’s for the whole there seems to be no spell. Perhaps there is no whole, before you’re dead. </i>[...]<i> I hear from here the howl resolving all, even if it is not mine. Meanwhile there’s no use knowing you are gone, you are not, you are writhing yet, the hair is growing, the nails are growing, the entrails emptying, all the morticians are dead.</i><br />
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