Herman Melville wrote the first draft of Moby Dick at 25 Craven Street The former Blue Plaque home of American author Herman Melville, where he wrote early drafts of Mody-Dick in the late 1840s ...

Melville, who was born in New York, spent much of his life at sea and came to London in the autumn of 1849 to secure a publisher for his novel White-Jacket, or, the World in a Man-of-War and to ...

Herman Melville's classic tale of a lawyer perplexed by the passive resistance of his new office clerk. Read by Alex Jennings. Show more 'It was on the third day, I think, of his being with me ...

Restored by the Berkshire County Historical Society, the home of "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale" author Herman Melville is open to visitors interested in learning more about the literary legend.

Ken Louie, a professor of economics at Penn State Behrend, has been following the Erie economy since he arrived in town for a job interview in 1984. At the time, Behrend's Economic Research ...

Erie 2025 highlights local businesses and the rise of artificial intelligence in the region. The annual business report also examines the growth and evolution of long-standing institutions ...

Fourth graders learning about canal boats and locks. Photo courtesy of Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor. The Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor and the New York State Canal Corporation ...

Herman Melville’s hallucinogenic magnum opus Moby-Dick is very obviously impossible to compact into 85 minutes of theatre. Quite aside from the question of getting all the story into that amount ...

Three New York artists, selected as the Canal Corporation’s 2024 Artists-in-Residence, have created works exploring the Erie Canal’s history. Their pieces are now on display at the Everson Museum.

UTICA – The H.A.R.P. Museum at the Irish Cultural Center of the Mohawk Valley will host two Lunch & Learn sessions for area youth on Thursday, Feb. 20 as they celebrate the 200th anniversary of ...

Brandy Melville, the fast-fashion retailer notorious for its “one-size-fits-most” California-girl clothing, opened a store on the Church Street Marketplace in Burlington last Saturday ...

We love the Erie Canal. Not only the canal itself, but all the small, wonderful communities that line the canal from the Capital District to Buffalo. Someone recently asked us which canal town did we ...