May 31, 2022 Walt Whitman, Charles McIlvaine, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Virginia Woolf, The Pickled Pantry by Andrea Chesman, and Louisa Yeomans King
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1819 Birth of Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, and journalist.
A humanist, Walt is remembered as the father of free verse.
When Whitman was 54 years old, he suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed. He spent the next two years immersed in nature, and he believed that nature had helped to heal him. He wrote,
How it all nourishes, lulls me, in the way most needed; the open air, the rye-fields, the apple…
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