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2002 was a year of increased activity and accomplishment for the Society on many fronts, especially in New Bedford, where the opening of the Society's Melville Archive was celebrated on January 4, 2003 (and featured in an editorial in the Boston Globe that same day). Several members of the Society, including officers serving on the Executive Committee and members of the Cultural Project's Transition Team, were on hand for the ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the Archive's opening in the Kendall Institute, the new library, research, and publications division of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, located at 791 Purchase Street. The opening was the culmination of an extended weekend of activity in the former whaling capital, which included also the seventh annual "marathon" reading of Moby-Dick. A crowd of more than 60 Melville enthusiasts, including members of the Melville family, gathered in the reading room of the smartly renovated Kendall to hear remarks by the Honorable Frederick M. Kalisz, Mayor of the City of New Bedford; Anne Brengle, Executive Director of the New Bedford Whaling Museum; Stuart Frank, Director of the Kendall Institute; and Robert K. Wallace, the Society' s out-going President. Wallace offered words of appreciation for the contributions of the many people in New Bedford and the Society who made this unprecedented occasion possible, most notably the late Harrison Hayford and Merton Sealts, whose generous gifts of more than 1,200 volumes from their personal libraries form the core of the Melville Archive.
At the end of the ceremony, Chris Sten made the surprise announcement that Tom Wendel, a Melville...
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