Whenever my husband meets someone, he tells them that we lived in the town (Acushnet) named after the whaling ship that Herman Melville took a trip on before he wrote their favorite novel. He also tells them that we were married in 1998 on the 1/2 scale whaling ship in the New Bedford Whaling Museum. We were supposed to have been married in the Seamen’s Bethel, the nearby small chapel which was featured in the Moby-Dick movie starring Gregory Peck, but it was January and the plumbing was frozen, so we were relocated to the whaling ship. Most of the people say that they didn’t like the book, or that they used Cliff Notes. We “had to” read it in 8th grade English but I only got about halfway through it and never felt inclined to try to read it again.
Thank you for including the Maria Mitchell quote. It exemplifies the mind of those scientists who are also believers and who joyfully pursue their inquiries even to the present day.
Whenever my husband meets someone, he tells them that we lived in the town (Acushnet) named after the whaling ship that Herman Melville took a trip on before he wrote their favorite novel. He also tells them that we were married in 1998 on the 1/2 scale whaling ship in the New Bedford Whaling Museum. We were supposed to have been married in the Seamen’s Bethel, the nearby small chapel which was featured in the Moby-Dick movie starring Gregory Peck, but it was January and the plumbing was frozen, so we were relocated to the whaling ship. Most of the people say that they didn’t like the book, or that they used Cliff Notes. We “had to” read it in 8th grade English but I only got about halfway through it and never felt inclined to try to read it again.
Thank you for including the Maria Mitchell quote. It exemplifies the mind of those scientists who are also believers and who joyfully pursue their inquiries even to the present day.