![]() ![]() Interested readers should email her at are encouraged to come be in the audience also," she said.Īnne Hutchinson reenactor Brent Thomas, "our favorite early colonial feminist and excommunicated Puritan," will open the marathon reading, said Raff. ![]() Inevitably there will be some last-minute cancellations as well," said Raff. "We still have some slots available, mostly Saturday evening. Yes, there is still time to sign up as a volunteer to read. Some readers take on more than one passage as the entire, unabridged version of the book is read. The library divides the book's reading into 111 time slots. to 10 p.m., and Sunday, April 30, 10 a.m. ![]() This year's reading marathon will take place Friday, April 28, 10 a.m. "It began as a way to acknowledge Provincetown's whaling history." Provincetown was nearly on a par with New Bedford by 1870 in revenue from whaling.Īccording to the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum, by 1870 the town was one of the wealthiest in the state because of revenue from whaling, and nearly on a par with New Bedford - which is where Moby Dick's narrator, Ishmael, stops before heading to Nantucket and joining the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the revenge-hungry Captain Ahab. "The library has been doing this for eight years, although it is our sixth in-person marathon because, during the pandemic we had online events for two years," said Provincetown Library Director Amy Raff. ![]()
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