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Herman Melville

the Berkshires & New Bedford, MASSACHUSETTS

  • Photo of Herman Melville’s study at Arrowhead.
    On a clear enough day, one can see the long hump of Mount Greylock from the window. Did the “gigantic ghostliness” of a distant and snow-clad Greylock represent the ever-elusive Moby Dick? — Melville’s study at Arrowhead.
  • Photo of grand central chimney at herman Melville's Arrowhead
    The “grand central chimney” at Arrowhead was inscribed by his younger brother Allan years later with text from Melville’s story. — Pittsfield, Massachusetts
  • Photo of the Icy Glen — the Berkshires, Massachusetts
    The Icy Glen, one of the few spots in New England where one might encounter snow or ice in the middle of the summer. The Icy Glen was visited by Melville and Hawthorne on that day in 1850 which forever changed Melville’s writing career and life. — the Berkshires, Massachusetts

    “It was a wondrous sight. The wood was green as mosses of the Icy Glen; the trees stood high and haughty, feeling their living sap; the industrious earth beneath was as a weaver’s loom, with a gorgeous carpet on it, whereof the ground-vine tendrils formed the warp and woof, and the living flowers the figures. All the trees, with all their laden branches; all the shrubs, and ferns, and grasses; the message-carrying air; all these unceasingly were active.”
    — Herman Melville
    Moby Dick, 1851
  • Photo of cenotaphs at The Seamen’s Bethel — New Bedford, Massachusetts
    The Seamen’s Bethel, a landmark even before Melville’s time. Cenotaphs such as this one were plaintive reminders of sailors lost at sea. — New Bedford, Massachusetts

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Appendix :: Literary Destinations

Herman Melville

(1819-1891)

Arrowhead
780 Holmes Road
Pittsfield, MA
Phone: (413) 443-1793
Website: mobydick.org

Hancock Shaker Village
1843 West Housatonic St.
Pittsfield MA, 01201
Phone: (413) 443-0188
Website: www.hancockshakervillage.org

Berkshire Athenaeum
1 Wendell Ave.
Pittsfield, MA 01201
Phone: (413) 499-9496
Website: www.pittsfieldlibrary.org

The Seamen’s Bethel
33 William Street
New Bedford, MA 02740
Phone: (508) 996-4095
Website: www.nps.gov

New Bedford Whaling Museum
18 Johnny Cake Hill
New Bedford, MA 02740
Phone: (508) 997-0046
Website: www.whalingmuseum.org

Melville Trail
Website: berkshirehistory.org

  • Herman Melville’s Arrowhead
  • Hancock Shaker Village
  • Berkshire Athenaeum
  • Crane Museum Of Papermaking
  • Tanglewood/ Hawthorne Cottage
  • Mt. Greylock
  • Monument Mountain
  • Park Square
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Appendix :: Literary Destinations

Sherwood Anderson • Raymond Carver • Willa Cather • James Fenimore Cooper • Rita Dove • Ralph Waldo Emerson • William Faulkner • Richard Ford • Robert Frost • Nathaniel Hawthorne • Ernest Hemingway • Langston Hughes • Washington Irving • Robinson Jeffers • Sinclair Lewis • Herman Melville • Henry Miller • Toni Morrison • Flannery O’Connor • E. Annie Proulx • Philip Roth • John Steinbeck • Wallace Stegner • Henry David Thoreau • John Updike • Thomas Wolfe
A Journey Through Literary America

A Journey Through Literary America

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Explore the fascinating stories of 26 great American authors with images of the places that inspired them to write. It’s the perfect gift for book lovers. With over 140 photographs throughout, the images add mood and dimension to the writing – and they are often shockingly close to what the featured authors described in their own words. Lushly illustrated, and beautifully designed, the book is as much of a pleasure to look at as it is to read.

This is a volume for the literary enthusiast, the armchair traveler or the intrepid reader. It is a handsome and beautifully illustrated companion for those who seek to learn more about authors they have read and those who wish to discover new writers.

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