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Adam for Oct 15

As a Civil War nerd, I found Whitman’s war memoranda very informative and enjoyable.  His account of soldiers returning after the Battle of Bull Run shows a side of the war I didn’t know–that there was...

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Adam’s Material Culture Museum Exhibit (Hoffman)

Camden’s role as a rail hub led to its rapid industrial growth in the nineteenth century. In the 1880s, the city had six railroads. Among the most important were the Camden and Amboy, and the Camden...

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Johnstown Flood–Adam’s Digital Museum (Singley)

On May 31, 1889, Walt Whitman’s seventieth birthday, 2,209 people were killed when the South Fork Dam failed, sending a wall rushing water and debris cascading into the riverside town of Johnstown,...

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Whitman and Race: a bibliographic essay

Whitman,%20Camden,%20and%20Race[1]click here for my bibliographic essay about Whitman’s racial attitudes

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Adam B. for Nov. 5–Whitman and Asian Americans

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes) –Walt Whitman Nowhere did Whitman contradict himself more than in his racial attitudes. Whitman is...

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Adam for Nov 18–Whitman and Dylan

WHITMAN AND DYLAN While reading “A Backward Glance o’er Travel’d Roads,” I couldn’t help but think of the parallels between the lives of two revolutionary American writers—Walt Whitman and Bob Dylan....

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Adam B’s Vistor’s Center Script–Whitman’s Disciples–William Douglas O’Connor

WILLIAM DOUGLAS O’CONNOR Walt Whitman described William Douglas O’Connor as his “dear, dear friend, and stanch (probably stanchest) literary believer and champion. . .” (Loving, 1) O’Connor was born in...

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Adam’s visitors center script–Whitman disciples–Sadakichi Hartmann

SADAKICHI HARTMANN While doing a search project about Whitman’s racism during his Camden years, I came across an interesting story about a Whitman disciple named Sadakichi Hartmann. Surprisingly,...

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Where Adam B. found Whitman

Pardon the poor audio quality… I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong, The carpenter singing his as he measures his...

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Adam B final project–musipoems

For my final project I took advantage of free access to Retro City Studios in Germantown (my friend is the owner). I was lucky that some of my former bandmates from Boston were down over Thanksgiving...

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