Tag: West Hills

Walt Whitman: Straight out of Paumanok

March 11, 2019
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Cynthia Shor, Executive Director of the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, sits at a microphone in her office.
Cynthia Shor, Executive Director of the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association.

Two hundred years ago, the man who broke American poetry wide open was born in West Hills, Long Island. His house remains a shrine and place of pilgrimage for fans […]