By the time most people will have read this blog post, my time reading at the 20th annual Moby Dick Marathon at the New Bedford Whaling Museum will be over.

This  is quite the event to which people from all over come to take part,  whether as readers, which I have found is an honor sought by many, or to read along and attend various exhibit openings, lectures, and even a game whose object is to stump Melville Scholars.

On the first day, not only was there the reading of the chapters that could be covered before midnight in English as written, but a  reading for children of an abridged version, one in Portuguese as an acknowledgement of the important part played in our domestic whale industry by the Islands of the Azores, and chapters in a variety of languages like French, Italian, Chinese (not sure which dialect), and even Hebrew followed by those chapters reread in English.

I got to talk with many of the readers, and got to meet and make friends with some of the Melville Scholars and members of the Melville Society.

I even got to have a nice conversation with a man whose father was a famous harpooner on the Island of Faial, and who was himself instrumental in establishing the Azorean exhibit space in the Bourne Building in a shared space with the 1/2 scale model of the whaling ship Lagoda.
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There is more to the event besides the book, and a real coming together of strangers to share the experience and leave as friends.

I can see why people come every year, some of whom were wearing the pins they received at each of the previous 19 years’ readings.

And I see why even today, people were hoping to get reading slots for a year from now.

Well worth the time, and highly recommended to plan for the 21st annual reading.