*Pop-up Dick read-aloud contest. Visit HERM each of the ten sites, take a selfie of you reading AN M ELVILLE Celebrating the the selection from the podium. 200th Birthday Post it to Instagram and include the hashtag, 200th Birthday #ACKMobyDick. Winners will be selected weekly for a gift certificate to one of the 1819 - 2019 of participating restaurants.

List of locations to visit: Melville at 200/ at 200 Artists Association of Nantucket Participating Organizations 19 Washington Street Artists Association of Nantucket Greenhound Station Department of Culture and Tourism 10 Washington Street The Dreamland Association Egan Maritime Institute 2 Vestal Street Greenhound Station/ReMain Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association Museum of African American History Museum of African American History 29 York Street Nantucket Atheneum

Nantucket Atheneum Nantucket Historical Association 1 India Street Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum Or, The Restaurant Nantucket Lifesaving and ’s Restaurant Shipwreck Museum Sconset Trust 158 Polpis Road Theatre Workshop of Nantucket Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum 49 Union Street

Queequeg’s Restaurant 6 Oak Street

Sconset Trust 1 New Street, Sconset Nantucket Department of Culture and Tourism Herman Melville Museum 25 Federal Street Nantucket, MA 02554 15 Broad Street 508-228-0925 1819 - 1891 August Thursday, Aug. 1 About Herman Melville Calendar of Events 200th birthday of Herman Melville Born on August 1, 1819, into a once-prominent April Lecture by Joe and Kathy Galllichio on the Moby Dick New York family, Herman Melville was raised in Friday, April 26 basket at Nantucket Lightship Basket an atmosphere of financial instability and genteel Opening of the Whaling Museum’s Essex Disaster Museum, 49 Union Street pretense. It was his adventures as a seaman in exhibition Thursday, Aug. 1 1845 that inspired Melville to write. On one voyage, Visit “Or, The Whale,” a restaurant located at he was captured and held for several months by May 38 Main Street and bearing the subtitle to “Moby the Typees; when he returned unscathed, friends Friday, May 24 Dick,” for a special menu to celebrate Herman encouraged Melville to write the escapade down. Opening of three exhibitions at Hadwen House: Melville’s 200th birthday. : A Peep at Polynesian Life became his first Melville on Nantucket Visit “Queequeg’s,” a restaurant located at literary success. Race and Diversity on 6 Oak Street for a special menu to celebrate Herman Melville’s 200th birthday. After ending his seafaring career, Melville read Moby Dick and Pop Culture voraciously. In 1847, he married Elizabeth Shaw and Friday, May 17 Thursday, Aug. 8 - Monday, Aug. 12 moved first to New York and then the Berkshires. Opening of Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum (49 “Not Down on Any Map: Herman Melville at Sea” There he lived near the reclusive writer Nathaniel Union Street) including display of Moby Dick basket by Artists Association of Nantucket, Cecilia Joyce & Hawthorne, who was to become a close friend and Michael Kane. Seward Johnson Gallery, 19 Washington Street. confidant. In 1851, he completed his masterpiece, Opening Reception, Thursday, Aug. 8, 6 – 8 pm with Moby-Dick, or The Whale. Considered by modern June sea shanties performance by Joe Flood scholars to be one of the great American , the book was dismissed by Melville’s contemporar- Saturday, June 15 Monday, Aug. 12 ies and he made little money from the effort. Launch of a new children’s book: “Would You Want To 200th anniversary of sailing of whaleship Essex from Sail In A Nantucket Whale Ship?” Nantucket During the 1850s, Melville supported his family by illustrated by English artist David Antram and film at The Dreamland author, Peter Cook. Whaling Museum farming and writing stories for magazines. He Monday, Aug. 12 later traveled to Europe, where he saw his friend Visit “Queequeg’s,” a restaurant located at Hawthorne for the last time. During that visit July & August ongoing 6 Oak Street for a special menu to commemorate the in 1856, it was clear to Melville that his -writ- Self-guided walking tour related to the Essex (Available 200th anniversary of the sailing of the ing career was finished. In 1857, after returning to at Visitor Services and Whaling Museum) whaleship Essex. New York still unnoticed by the literary public, he Pop-up reading stations around stopped writing fiction. Thursday, Aug. 14 8:30 am – 12 pm Nantucket - Select Moby Dick readings at partner sites NHA’s Quaker Meeting House – Melville (See Location List)* Herman Melville died of a heart attack on Symposium featuring , Jamie September 28, 1891, at the age of 72. At that time, Open Nights at MMA’s Loines Observatory Jones and Mary Bercaw Edwards. A special reading he was almost completely forgotten by all but a (mariamitchell.org) on celestial navigation from Moby connecting passages from Whale Ship log books and few admirers. During the week of his death, The Dick Moby-Dick, by Harvey Young and Caleb Cardell. New York Times wrote: “There has died and been Moby Dick basket by Michael Kane with scrimshaw by Wednesday, Aug 21 – Friday, Aug 23 7 – 8:30 pm buried in this city…a man who is so little known, Dorothy Grant O’Hara on display at Nantucket Lightship Moby Dick Rehearsed, Whaling Museum in even by name, to the generation now in the vigor Basket Museum, 49 Union Street collaboration with Theater Workshop of Nantucket of life that only one newspaper contained an obit- uary account of him, and this was but of three or July November four lines.” It wasn’t until the 1920s that the literary Tuesday, July 9 5:30 pm Saturday, Nov. 16 and Sunday, Nov. 17 public began to recognize Melville as one of Sea Shanties with Don Sinetti, Whaling Museum rooftop Moby Dick Marathon Reading - Atheneum & America’s greatest writers. Whaling Museum