Moby-Dick Book Discussion with Spoleto Festival USA

Participate in an in-depth virtual panel discussion on Wednesday, April 20^th from 6:30-7:30pm of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. Panelists include Dr. Rorie Cartier, Executive Director of Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum, and Dr. Hester Blum, author and Professor of English at Penn State.

All book lovers are invited to learn more about this classic novel, no matter how many times you have (or haven’t) read the book. If you’d like to read materials in anticipation of the discussion, you are invited to read the following chapters:

1, Loomings

36, The Quarter-Deck

93, The Castaway

94, A Squeeze of the Hand

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The staff member hosting will confirm your registration by the day of the program. At this time, you will receive an email containing the meeting link. If you have any questions about this program, please contact Karli Gallagher at gallagherk@ccpl.org

Dr. Rorie Cartier, Executive Director of Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum, is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana and prior to Patriots Point served as Museum Director at the National Museum of the Pacific War, spent several years teaching at the university level, and worked within the museum profession at the Admiral Nimitz Foundation and the National WWII Museum.

Hester Blum is Professor of English at Penn State. She is the author of The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives and The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration, among other volumes. Blum is past president of the Herman Melville Society, and her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She participated in the 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan, the world's last surviving wooden whaleship and the sister ship to the Acushnet, in which Melville sailed.