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The Real Ahab's Wife: The Women of Nantucket and How They Changed America- A Summer Classics Talk with Susan Beegel In-Person
Learn about the women of Nantucket and how they changed America with local author and scholar Susan Beegel.
Beegel lived on Nantucket Island (the Pequod's home port) for twenty years, and regularly taught a college course, "Moby-Dick in Context," for UMass Boston's Nantucket Semester, making use of the island's whaling museum and the Historical Association's research center. Moby-Dick was also the mainstay of her "Literature of the Sea" course for the Williams College Maritime Studies program at Mystic Seaport, where her students gave their own dramatic production of Melville's novel aboard the Charles W. Morgan, the world's only surviving wooden whaleship.
Presented by PFL Book Group Summer Classics.
- Date:
- Wednesday, August 12, 2026
- Time:
- 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Community Room
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Lecture/Speaker