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...
View ArticleAdam’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...
View ArticleJohnstown 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,...
View ArticleWhitman and Race: a bibliographic essay
Whitman,%20Camden,%20and%20Race[1]click here for my bibliographic essay about Whitman’s racial attitudes
View ArticleAdam 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...
View ArticleAdam 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....
View ArticleAdam 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...
View ArticleAdam’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,...
View ArticleWhere 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...
View ArticleAdam 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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