Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

The Pequot nation, the source of the name of Captain Ahab’s ship in Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” (1851)

A trace in Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” (1851) of the desire to extend enslavement in the mid-19th-century United States

My seventy-third concert this year, and my first Beethoven symphony ever

Finishing “Moby Dick” on my fourth try

Durham Cathedral and English and Syrian music in Ken Loach’s “The Old Oak” (2023)

Donald Trump has only recently been frequently called a “fascist"