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Speaker 1: Thousands of people are camped out all throughout the New

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Speaker 1: Bedford Whaling Museum as the Bobie Dick Marathon heads into

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Speaker 1: its home stretch. The yearly New Year's tradition sees different

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Speaker 1: speakers taking turns reading sections of the book. Anna Lisa

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Speaker 1: Conway is the chief Engagement Officer at the New Bedford

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Speaker 1: Whaling Museum, and she says, much like the trade of

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Speaker 1: whaling itself, love for the book extends far and wide.

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Speaker 2: We have actually collected zip codes so we can really

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Speaker 2: analyze where people are coming from, but anecdotally again, I've

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Speaker 2: talked to people from Montana, from Colorado, from Maryland, from Minnesota,

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Speaker 2: from northern Virginia.

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Speaker 1: Plus people watching the live stream from countries all over

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Speaker 1: the world. The people here all seem to have a

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Speaker 1: strong personal connection to something from the book. For Conway,

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Speaker 1: it's her father who was a sailor.

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Speaker 2: Part of this is.

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Speaker 3: A real connection for me to what he loved about

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Speaker 3: the sea and being able to kind of chase that

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Speaker 3: unknowable thing that you can never really cap.

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Speaker 1: Share from New Bedford. Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's news radio