In a few minutes we are going to go digging for the grave of Maine-born and New York died 19th Century poet and activist, Elizabeth Oakes Smith.
There is a story online of a kind fireman who loving tends to her broken and utterly forgotten grave. The Dead Poets Society of America is seeking to rectify this situation, especially since Smith lived in Maine, New York, and South Carolina, and all three of the Crew here on the Dead Poets Grand Tour have family connections to these places. She bought land in Monson, Maine; Peter Wentworth is from there. She was born in North Yarmouth: Walter Skold was married there and attends church there with his 5 children (when they fly back to the nest for a visit). Alice the cinematographer extraordinaire has sweet connections to Charleston, SC, where Smith lived for awhile. Hunter the Famous Dead Poet Hunter was born in Brooklyn, and Smith lived there.
Off on the journey!
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