Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Thursday, May 31, 2018
"A Voice from Death" by Walt Whitman
On this day in 1889, according to the Associated Press, "some 2,200 people in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, perished when the South Fork Dam collapsed, sending 20 million tons of water rushing through the town." To read the poem that Walt Whitman, who was born on this day in 1819, wrote about that cataclysm, click here.
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