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The New Bedford Whaling Museum in collaboration with The Melville Society is the established home of the Melville Society Cultural Project and Melville Society Archive. The Melville Society Archive is housed at the New Bedford Whaling Museum's Research Library, where significant works from this collection are also on display. The Melville Society Cultural Project also sponsors a book donation program and presents exciting annual events including the Moby-Dick Marathon and a Birthday Lecture.
Herman Melville's Arrowhead Facebook Group page of the Berkshire Historical Society. Celebrating historical Berkshire County and Herman Melville's Arrowhead, the farm and home where Melville lived while writing Moby-Dick.
Art Exhibit at Arrowhead - Douglas Paisley
Paintings and Drawings Inspired by The Confidence-Man
August 4 - October 15, 2012
CHAPTER XX. Reappearance of one who may be remembered. Acrylic on plywood 16”x 24”
From the Herman Melville's Arrowhead Website: "The exhibit is a series of paintings inspired by Melville’s last major novel, The Confidence-Man, which he wrote in the same house in Pittsfield where he completed Moby-Dick. Published on April Fools Day, 1857, The Confidence-Man portrays a Canterbury Tales-style group of steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. The novel is a rich and prescient look at the resonant story of American “confidence” – in the economy, the nation, and the future – and that story’s shadow figure, the confidence man."
For more information about the exhibit and the artist, Douglas Paisley, as well as other upcoming exhibits and events, click here to visit the Berkshire Historical Society's Herman Melville's Arrowhead website.
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Woodlawn Cemetary - final resting place of Herman, his wife, Elizabeth, and other family members. Click here to view photos of the gravesites.
A celebration of Melville's life at Woodlawn Cemetary on the 125th anniversary of his passing.
Melville lived for nine years in this Lansingburgh house. It was here that he wrote Typee and Omoo.
Melville's Arrowhead home and farm in Pittsfield, MA where he wrote Moby-Dick and lived for most of the 1850s.
