Friday evening is the official kickoff for the 29th annual Moby Dick Read-a-thon at the Whaling Musuem in New Bedford.A time ...

NEW BEDFORD -- As the downtown area prepares ... With the community reading taking place in a half-scale replica of a 19th century whaling ship, participants are transported back in time to ...

NEW BEDFORD — As you walk through the cobblestone ... With over 750,000 items, including rare scrimshaw pieces and logbooks from whaling ships, the museum's impressive collections are sure ...

The annual event takes place in the Massachusetts town of New Bedford, which is where Herman Melville's celebrated 1851 novel ...

"In 1841, on January 3, He set sail from the port of New Bedford on the Acushnet which was the whaling ship that he sailed for so many years." Experts call the whaling museum's read-a-thon the ...

New Bedford's Whaling Museum offers visitors an annual opportunity to experience a real-life night at the museum. It starts with one of the most famous first lines in American literary history. "'Call ...

Tryworks -- brick oven furnaces used to render oil from whale blubber -- are first installed on ships ... whaling voyages. Prominent Nantucket whaling merchant Joseph Rotch resettles to New ...

Long-awaited plans to construct a new 20,000-square-foot building to house New Bedford Whaling Museum collections, a store and gallery space are in the works. The existing Hiller Printing building ...