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Cancelled: Stephen J. Collins in Herman Melville: Sailing Towards My Father, a play by Carl A. Rossi

Sunday, October 6, 2019 - 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM | Members' Room | open to the public | $20 per person | registration required
WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. PLEASE CONTACT KFRICAS@NYSOCLIB.ORG OR 212.288.6900 EXT. 230 WITH ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS. WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE.

Sailing Towards My Father is a solo play by Carl A. Rossi about Herman Melville (1819-1891), the American author best known for his whaling epic Moby-Dick. The play chronicles Melville’s life from youth to old age, concentrating on his evolution as a writer and his complex relations with God, his parents and siblings, his wife and children, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Stephen J. Collins grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts and received a BA in Literature from UMass Boston. He teaches seminars on Whitman, Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, and contemporary poetry at locations throughout the Boston area and also works as a professionally licensed tour guide there.

Sailing Towards My Father completes a double feature; at 3:00 PM on October 6, Mr. Collins presents his solo show about Walt Whitman. Registration is separate for the two plays; attend either or both.


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Price 
$20.00