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Second meeting of the Melville Society Cultural Project team: New Bedford, September 2002. (Allastir).

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Working in various venues, with various key partners, and at various tasks throughout the weekend of September 13-14, the Melville Society Cultural Project Transition Team moved considerably closer toward achieving a Melville presence in New Bedford and toward realizing the dream for a Melville cultural center which began more than five years ago at the Volos Melville conference. Indeed, as a result of meetings over the weekend, the Melville Society Cultural Project's (MSCP) formal affiliation with the New Bedford Whaling Museum (NBWM) and with its library and research center, the Kendall Institute (KI), was celebrated by the grand opening of the Melville Archives at the KI, following the annual Moby-Dick Marathon, on January 4, 2003.

During the weekend, two sets of tasks confronted the Transition Team (TT) of Mary K Bercaw-Edwards, Wyn Kelley, Douglas Robillard, Beth Schultz, Chris Sten, and Bob Wallace: those pertaining to the installation of the Melville Society's archives at the KI and those pertaining to the development of diverse activities and programs related to the MSCP. Thus on September 13, while Mary K and Doug were unpacking and sorting through the rich gift of books and papers from Harrison Hayford's estate in the dusty basement of the KI, Wyn, Beth, Chris, and Bob were meeting with the staff of the NBWM, New Bedford city officials, and representatives from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth (UMD).

Before the arrival of the full TT, Wyn and Doug had already started opening the forty Hayford boxes...

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