Etching of Joseph O. Eaton's portrait of Herman Melville, Courtesy: Library of Congress Born to a New York City merchant in 1819, Melville fought for a greatness that would not be realized during ...

Etching of Joseph O. Eaton's portrait of Herman Melville, Courtesy: Library of Congress Born to a New York City merchant in 1819, Melville fought for a greatness that would not be realized during ...

Although author Herman Melville never called New Bedford home, he wrote glowingly of the port city in his most famous work “Moby-Dick,” describing it as “perhaps the dearest place to live in ...