Just another reminder that Nathaniel Philbrick‘s talk will be at MORSE POND SCHOOL on this Saturday, February 6th at 2:00 p.m. The Moby-Dick Book Club continues on Wednesday evenings at the library at 7:00 p.m., and this week chapters 49-64 will be discussed. We continue to add things to our What’s Falmouth Reading web page. Most recently we have now posted Professor Jim Morgan’s slide presentation for his lecture Call Us Ishmael: Floating on a Coffin in the Middle of Moby-Dick. If you missed the lecture, or can’t read the notes you wrote, you can see all of his slides on our web page.

And don’t forget the Moby-Dick Marathon:

“Call me Ishmael.”

With those words, the What’s Falmouth Reading Committee launches the Moby-Dick Marathon, a nonstop reading of Herman Melville’s great American classics. Beginning at noon on Saturday, March 13, the reading will continue through the night at the Falmouth Public Library and end approximately 24 hours later. The public is invited to sign up for reading spots.

The committee will transform the library’s Hermann Foundation Room into The Spouter Inn for the day, with refreshments available for readers and spectators. Readers will include local celebrities, teachers, students, selectmen, clergy, professionals and other lovers of Moby-Dick from throughout the region. Admission is free.

The Moby-Dick Marathon has been a longstanding annual tradition in places like the New Bedford Whaling Museum and Mystic Seaport, where our region’s historical ties to whaling continue to be studied and celebrated.

Interested in reading? To request a 15-minute reading spot, e-mail marathon coordinator Jayne Iafrate at or call the Reference Desk at 508-457-2555 ext. 6. Please be sure to indicate several alternative times when you can read.