Whale Tales

A Colonial Enterprise Guest: Michael P. Dyer, Curator, Maritime History, New Bedford Whaling Museum In 18th- and 19th-century New England, whaling was a lucrative, and essential, enterprise. You can't fully understand early New England without understanding whaling. Ahab’s Rolling Sea Guest: Richard J. King, author, "Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick" Herman Melville’s "Moby-Dick" is the first great American novel about the sea, and it still has many lessons for modern audiences on the nature of the ocean and our relationship to it.