As part of a partnership between the Whale Museum and the New Bedford Whaling Museum, the museum hosted a reading marathon last saturday
The participants were 10 students at the Secondary School in Húsavík, who also participate in the project on behalf of the Whale Museum. Whale-related literature such as Moby Dick, Keikó and Gosi and the Whale were read.
The marathon is the first of three events held by the partner museums, but in addition to the marathon, they will honor whales with the family tradition, and it will be done on the occasion of the opening of a new whale shark exhibition in Húsavík. The third event is a beach clean-up day, where emphasis is placed on one's relationship and responsibility with the ocean and its ecosystem.
The reading marathon was extremely successful and the students read for 12 hours, continuously. When the marathon was halfway through, those present connected to the Whaling Museum in New Bedford via Skype and the Húsvíska students opened a 2-hour children's reading marathon by reading the first chapter of Moby Dick in Icelandic.
During the marathon, the students sold coffee and home-baked goods, as well as t-shirts that they had designed themselves as part of the project and bags with the project's logo. All proceeds from the sale went to the project's travel fund.
