SALEM — “Moby-Dick” has the most famous opening sentence in American literature: “Call me Ishmael.” That’s it, but what a lot gets packed into those three words. Now that sentence can make a further ...

Moussa Kone, illustrator and Harpune Verlag, publisher. "Etymology," 2012. (Courtesy Moussa Kone and Harpune Verlag. Photo by Kathy Tarantola/Peabody Essex Museum) Happy birthday, Herman Melville! On ...

As a minister/counselor for half a century, I have come to believe that we live in a world saturated with angry people.

In the Heart of the Sea isn’t just an epic tale of man versus nature, it’s also a dramatic recounting of a real attack. Though some moments were dramatized, Howard's film remained faithful to the ...

The 2015 movie In the Heart of the Sea, starring Tom Holland and Chris Hemsworth, is now streaming on Netflix, leading many to wonder why several changes were made to the true story behind In the ...

Sam Keeley as Ramsdell and Chris Hemsworth as Owen Chase in Warner Bros. Pictures' 'In the Heart of the Sea' (2015). Though some moments were dramatized, Howard's film remained faithful to the ...

Contrary to the motto on its municipal seal, New Bedford was no longer the city that lit the world by the 1920s. America’s lamps mostly ran on electricity and kerosene. Whale byproducts still had some ...

Given our local history, it's not hard to imagine one of the old whaling ships driving hard through the South Pacific. Since we tend to think of sailing as a summertime thing, maybe it would be a good ...

Chase, Owen Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the whale-ship Essex of Nantucket which was attacked & finally destroyed by a large spermaceti-whale in the Pacific ocean .

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First ed. published in 1821 under title: Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the whale-ship Essex, of Nantucket.