This event is in the "Adults" group.
Patriotism and Protest: Famous American Songs and Their Legacies
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Adults
Charlotte Collins Meeting Room
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Library Branch:
Wallingford Public Library
Room:
Charlotte Collins Meeting Room
Age Group:
Adults
Program Type:
Book Discussion,
Hobbies & Gaming,
Lectures, Presentations, & Author Events,
Music, Arts, & Culture,
Other
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Event Details:
“I Hear American Singing,/the varied carols I hear” are the opening lines of a poem in Walt Whitman’s 1860 version of his monumental “Leaves of Grass.” Whitman proceeds in the poem to catalogue the wonderfully various “voices” he hears in hi