UPDATED: Event will take place in the Meeting Room.

Actor Stephen Collins will perform his one-man show, “Herman Melville: Sailing Towards My Father.” Explore the life of Herman Melville (1819-1891), the American author best known for his whaling epic Moby-Dick. Learn about Melville’s life from youth to old age, concentrating on his evolution as a writer and his complex relations with God, his parents and siblings, his wife and children, and Nathanial Hawthorne. Learn more about Stephen Collins HERE. 

 This living history performance will take place on the library's back lawn. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own blankets or chairs. In case of inclement weather, the performance will take place in the library’s Fairgrieve Wing. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

The library will be bringing authors to life this summer on Wednesday nights at 6:30pm, with Ralph Waldo Emerson (July 3), Julia Ward Howe (July 10), Robert Frost (July 17), Charles Dickens (July 24), Herman Melville (July 31), and Rudyard Kipling (August 7) all scheduled to visit.