The Azorean Maritime Heritage Society (AMHS) recently hosted its annual Scholarship Dinner to a full house at the Century ...

The narrative about the American Revolutionary War is told almost exclusively in military terms and is, thus, predominantly ...

In 1819, the crew of the Essex were attacked by a huge whale, the ship sank, and the men were forced to attempt to return home in small whaleboats. What follows is a story of human endeavour ...

Jake Heggie’s and Gene Scheer’s opera adaptation goes easy on the meaty conflicts and keeps the stakes curiously low.

The monster destroys the whaleboats one by one, and finally, the Pequod, too. Grand opera usually ends with a death or two. Melville’s novel serves as a metaphor for the Trump administration.

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Sometimes I changed certain things and kept others. In the first act, when the crew first sees a pod of whales and Ahab refuses to lower the whaleboats Moby-Dick isn’t among them—that’s not in the ...

The 20 survivors scrambled into three whaleboats, which eventually became separated during a storm. After two and a half months at sea, the days began to blur and the stockpile of food dwindled ...

One notable event was Grey’s Raid in 1778, during which the British seized 10,000 sheep and 300 cattle, destroyed saltworks, broke up several whaleboats, confiscated arms and powder, and ...

The barrels of gunpowder were rolled to waiting Bermudian whaleboats and transported to the American ships. Twelve days later half of the powder was delivered to Philadelphia and half to American ...

All but one was born in Setauket. Each had known Tallmadge since childhood: Abraham Woodhull, a farmer who had reason to hate the British; Anna Smith Strong, who let Woodhull know where Brewster was ...