Read Moby Dick.
That’s it. Cancel all other plans.
July 15th 4:00 pm Richard King, “Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby Dick”Richard J. King is the author of five books of nonfiction about our relationship with the global ocean, including most recently Sailing Alone: A History, which received the silver medal in literature from the National Outdoor Book Awards. He wrote Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick, lauded in Science, Nature, and American Scholar; Lobster, which was acclaimed by the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal; and The Devil’s Cormorant: A Natural History, which was short-listed for the ASLE Creative Book Award and rated as one of the top five science books of 2013 by Library Journal. Join us for a discussion on Zoom for a journey through Melville’s natural history masterpiece.
August 12th 6:00 pm Susan Beegel, “The Real Ahab’s Wife: the Women of Nantucket and How They changed America”Local author and scholar, Susan Beegel lived on Nantucket Island (the Pequod’s home port) for twenty years, and regularly taught a college course, “Moby-Dick in Context,” for UMass Boston’s Nantucket Semester, making use of the island’s whaling museum and the Historical Association’s research center. Moby-Dick was also the mainstay of her “Literature of the Sea” course for the Williams College Maritime Studies program at Mystic Seaport, where her students gave their own dramatic production of Melville’s novel aboard the Charles W. Morgan, the world’s only surviving wooden whaleship. Come listen in person as Susan talks about the women of Nantucket, and how they changed history.
Eat Chowder: Regional Chowder Cook-OffSeptember 9th 5:30pm New England, Manhattan, Rhode Island, Vegan
Abby’s Book Club is by kids, for kids, and will be a show-and-tell version of a book club!
As Abby says: “You could read at your house or at the club. Then get a piece of paper and write about the book. You can read your book for 3-4 minites. You can show and tell your book after! You can doodle when someone is talking. NO talk when someone is talking. You can pass if you want to. You can draw with: markers craylons and colored pencils blank paper or printable.”
Meets the first Tuesday from November through March. Suggested ages: 6-10.
Banned Book Club discusses a pre-selected banned book, the dangers and realities of censorship, and the importance of defending everyone’s right to read! Presented in partnership with Bath Pride and Mockingbird Bookshop. Meets every other 3rd Wednesday unless noted.
