fredericksburg – Digital Whitman http://marywash.lookingforwhitman.org Just another Looking for Whitman weblog Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:57:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.30 Finding Whitman http://erinlongbottom.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/11/17/finding-whitman/ http://erinlongbottom.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/11/17/finding-whitman/#respond Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:25:21 +0000 http://erinlongbottom.lookingforwhitman.org/?p=84

Filmed in Marye’s Heights at the Fredericksburg Battlefield. My camera makes me sound like I have a lisp, I don’t know why.

]]> http://erinlongbottom.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/11/17/finding-whitman/feed/ 0 Belated Partial Field Trip Post http://erinlongbottom.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/10/21/belated-partial-field-trip-post/ http://erinlongbottom.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/10/21/belated-partial-field-trip-post/#respond Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:42:13 +0000 http://erinlongbottom.lookingforwhitman.org/?p=57 When we were at the Fredericksburg battlefield the park ranger there let me take pictures of the photos of the pictures she showed the tour group. I took a few of them and then lined them up with current day pictures:

This one isn’t of the battlfield, but the man on the left was a confederate soldier who went out on the battlfield and gave water to wounded union soldiers. I want t say he was called the angel of Fredericksburg, but I’m not sure that was his name. The picture on the right is a monument to him.

The picture on the left is of the battlefield wall with the Innis house in the distance. The right hand picture is of the same wall with the Innis house.

This photo is of the Steven house, which you can see the foundation of on the right.

Picture of what the battlefield originally looked like, and a picture of what’s there today.

You can see the images at a larger size if you go to my flickr account, I think if you go here you should be able to see them. Hopefully I’ll be adding more picture from the trip within the next two days.

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]]> http://brady.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/10/06/more-videos-from-103-field-trip/feed/ 0 If I was WW, where would I be? http://cirvine1965.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/09/11/if-i-was-ww-where-would-i-be/ http://cirvine1965.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/09/11/if-i-was-ww-where-would-i-be/#respond Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:42:20 +0000 http://cirvine1965.lookingforwhitman.org/?p=24 I friend of mine came down to visit last weekend.  She’s from Philadelphia and over the summer she was in a play about Walt Whitman’s life.  The coolest thing is that the play was in Camden and they performed it in the graveyard where he’s buried.  When I told her about this class she was stoked and we set out to find Walt for ourselves.  With some poetry, some orange slices and a camera we headed to the Rappahannock.

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I know all you UMW kids probably see this all the time.  It’s basically right across the street from us.  I grew up here, so have visited this very spot about a thousand times.  But I tried to look at every detail with the wonder that Walt describes finding in the simplest places.

“Loafe with me on the grass, loose the stop from your throat, 
Not words, not music or rhyme I want, not custom or lecture, not 
even the best, 
Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.”

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Our town around the time Whitman came here to look for his brother George, in late 1862.

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