New Bedford is one step closer to paying homage to literary legend Herman Melville. The larger-than-life sculpture of the ...

Although author Herman Melville never called New Bedford home, he wrote glowingly of the port city in his most famous work “Moby-Dick,” describing it as “perhaps the dearest place to live ...

NEW BEDFORD — Four accomplished sculptors have been selected as finalists to create New Bedford’s Herman Melville statue at Seaman’s Bethel, chosen from over 40 artists who had been vying ...

Herman Melville spent most of his life straddling that line, existing in the liminal space between genius and failure — his desired fame only achieved posthumously. Melville was not revered in his day ...

The Berkshire County Historical Society will host a free public reading of works by playwrights who participated in a playwriting intensive on July 18, and a one-woman performance on July ...

Happy birthday, Herman Melville! On Aug. 1, 1819, the author who painstakingly crafted “Moby-Dick” came into the world — and, in so many ways, he’s never left.