Captain's Salon: A Nautical Literary Soirée

09/18/2017

This Saturday, 9-23! Last free Blue Room lecture of the season!
At 900 Beach Street, the Maritime Museum's Blue Room
1 pm, FREE!

On 9/23 at 1 PM, Colin Dewey, Assistant Professor of English at Cal Maritime and a Herman Melville scholar, will present a lecture on Melville’s persistent connections with San Francisco Bay. Named for the writer’s most seductive and enduring character from his novel, Typee, the schooner Fayaway had a long and eventful career from her launch in Connecticut to her loss in the Arctic nearly 30 years later. This lecture will ask whether Herman Melville could have seen the vessel during his visit to San Francisco in October 1860, and what she would have meant to him then. Join us in the Blue Room at the Maritime Museum (900 Beach Street.)

Image: Herman Melville in 1860. Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Mass. Unknown photographer

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Hey, that was fun! Thanks for coming out everyone, and look for our next event after the first of the year. Ideas for a future soirée? Let's hear them!!

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