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By the time he published Moby-Dick in 1851, Herman Melville’s career as a popular prose writer was almost over. While Melville was working on the docks as a customs inspector to support his family, his younger brother Thomas was across the harbor with one of the best jobs in New York City: governor of Staten Island’s Sailors’ Snug Harbor. Join this virtual program to celebrate Herman’s 201st birthday with John Rocco, a Distinguished Teaching Professor and Coordinator of the Maritime and Naval Studies (MNST) Master’s program at SUNY Maritime College, who will introduce us to the Melville brothers’ relationship and its impact on Melville’s “lost” years and final work, Billy Budd, Sailor.
- Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanic Garden
- SUNY Maritime College
- Stephen B. Luce Library Maritime Digital Collections
- The Melville Society
- Noble Maritime Collection
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Arch Puppets: When Grand Army Plaza Had a Puppet Lending Library | Virtual Program | Thursday, January 21

Virtual Walking Tour of the Monuments of Manhattan's Battery | Virtual Program | Monday, January 25

Portal to Prospect Park: Restoring the Endale Arch | Free Virtual Program | Friday, January 29
