[Update: The Athenaeum has notified us that the show has been cancelled and tickets will be refunded. Best of luck to Mr. Sherba. BC] Apparently my suggestion that the Athenaeum close out its Moby-Dickathon with a live performance of Leviathan has fallen on deaf ears. The library is going in a somewhat different direction presenting […]
(2.17) Rescheduled from an earlier date, Friday’s installment of the excellent Moby-Dick series at the Athenaeum “Hark! The White Whale!” will be the last. Today writer LaShonda Barnett, in association with the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, presents ‘To Serve Before the Mast: Recovering the Lost Legacy of Rhode Island’s Black Seaman.’ While little documented
Who was Herman Melville? Born into a family of declining wealth and status, half New Yorker, half New Englander, he went to sea as a young man and returned to chronicle the deepest crises of his era, from the debates over slavery through the bloodbath of the Civil War to the intellectual and spiritual revolution
What is it with the Athenaeum and this whale?! It’s like they’re obsessed. Head down to the Providence Athenaeum for Part Five of the Moby-Dick inspired salon series “Hark! The White Whale!”* (although this installment involves more ‘looking’ than ‘harking’. This week features, . . . historian Chet Van Duzer on “Mapping Medieval and Renaissance
Although it always gets shortened in common usage, the complete original title of Melville’s epic tale is Moby-Dick; or The Whale. Some people also found the book itself too long and decided to address the problem. In 2007, Orion Books produced Moby-Dick in Half the Time, a Compact Edition “sympathetically edited” to “retain all the
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In celebration of the 160th anniversary of the publication of Moby-Dick (or, as it was originally called, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale) the Providence Athenaeum has scheduled a series of six talks and events, plus a great exhibit with more to come in the fall. Director of member services, programs and development, Christina Bevilacqua, has made