Event
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Multiple Days: 01/28/2017, 03/25/2017, 05/20/2017, 07/29/2017, 09/23/2017
Location:
Maritime Museum at San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park,
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Time: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Fee Information: Free
Contact Name: Lucien Sonder
Contact Email: E-Mail Us
Contact Phone Number: 415-561-7177
The National Park Service and California State University Maritime Academy are partnering to present a series of free lectures for the public in 2017.
These “Blue Room Lectures” will be presented by professors from Cal Maritime and will take place in the Maritime Museum at San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park (900 Beach Street, San Francisco, in the Blue Room.)
A Q & A period will follow each talk. For more information, contact 415-561-7177.
Saturday, September 23, 2017, 1:00 PM: “The Schooner Fayaway and Herman Melville’s Persistent Connections with San Francisco Bay,” by Colin Dewey, Assistant Professor of English at Cal Maritime.
Colin Dewey, Assistant Professor of English at Cal Maritime and a Herman Melville scholar, presents a lecture on Melville’s persistent connections with San Francisco Bay. Named for the writer’s most seductive and enduring character from his novel, Typee, the schooner Fayaway had a long and eventful career from her launch in Connecticut to her loss in the Arctic nearly 30 years later. This lecture will ask whether Herman Melville could have seen the vessel during his visit to San Francisco in October 1860, and what she would have meant to him then.