This Wednesday, November 11 is Veterans Day. On May 13, 1938, Armistice was made a legal holiday, a day dedicated to the cause of world peace. In 1953 the day was expanded to celebrate all veterans of war and on May 26, 1954, Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the observation of Veterans Day on […]
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On Saturday November 7, myself, Dr. Hoffman and some of my classmates met for a tour of the Whitman House at 328 Mickle Street (now known as Martin Luther King Blvd). To be honest, I was kind of dreading this trip. A Saturday morning, in Camden, at the Walt Whitman House was not my idea […]
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As I have previously mentioned, the focus on Whitman’s war poetry has been of great interest to me. In his Songs of Parting, the titles are enough to send chills, and they did. But as I read on, the poems took on a life of their own. In them, I could see the faces of […]
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