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New Bedford Installing Sculpture of Melville Based on 'Moby-Dick'

New Bedford's installing a statue of Herman Melville based on his epic "Moby-Dick," the story of a whaling captain and his nemesis the white whale, inspired by Mount Greylock.

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'Moby-Dick' Read-a-thon

This is the 8th annual read-a-thon.

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Melville's Linguistics Lecture

Tickets are $5 for BCHS members, $10 for non-members

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Literary Hike to Monument Mountain

Celebrate that time Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville took a hike up Monument Mountain in 1850 by walking in their footsteps.

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BCHS Musing with Melville Program

Musing With Melville sessions will have limited availability Tuesdays and Wednesdays, June through October.