1st Leg: 6:15 to 6: 50 AM at the Gloucester Fisherman Monument (Rain location: TBA)
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6:15 – 7:15 AM Fisherman statue in Gloucester. (Sunrise, at 6:45 AM)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Sarah Orne Jewett T. S. Eliot Clarence Manning Falt Herbert Kenny William Vaughn Moody |
"Wreck of the Hesperus" "The Gloucester Mothers" From "Dry Salvages" Gloucester Moors |
K. Peddlar Bridges, The Biker Poet
Marjory Wentworth |
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7:15 – 7:30 Breakfast break 15 minutes to grave of Charles Olson |
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8:00 – 8:20 Gloucester Cemetery (Next: 20 Minutes to Beverly) |
Charles Olson & Story of his funeral & headstone |
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2nd Leg: Beverly & Salem (Rain locations TBA)
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8:45 – 9:45 Lynch Park, Beverly Lucy Larcom George Woodberry John Updike Sylvia Plath Robert Lowell Elizabeth Bishop |
"Ballad of the Subway Train" North of Boston "For CW" |
K. Peddlar, Biker Poet Michael Updike
Marjory Wentworth
Mark Stevick |
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10:00 - 10:30 AM Old South Cemetery, Salem-Peabody Michael Wigglesworth Rev. Timothy Flint Rev. Jones Very |
Three Preacher-Poets 1. Flint’s Epitaph 2. |
Charles Skold |
4th Leg: 11:30 - 12:30 Boston Irish Famine Memorial (Rain locations: TBA)
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11:30 – 12:30 Irish Famine Memorial Charles Sprague: Sprague was called the "Banker-Poet" of Boston. He is buried in the family vault. Phillis Wheatley: Wheatley was the first African-American poetess. Her burial place remains a mystery. Anne Bradstreet John Boyle O’Reilly Edgar Allan Poe |
Excerpts from “An Ode: Pronounced Before The Inhabitants of Boston, Sept. the 17th, 1830...” 1. Excerpt from Ocean 2. To Maecenas |
Special Appearance of Edgar Allan Poe |
5th Leg: Mt. Auburn Cemetery (Rain Location: Mt. Auburn Storey Chapel)
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2:00 to 4:30. Sweet Auburn: ............ An American Parnassus ................... . A 21-grave salute & walking tour. |
Join Nationally-known poets Rhina Espaillat, Marjory Wentworth, and Lisa Starr as we scale the slopes of the imagination in this American Parnassus garden of graves. |
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John Ciardi |
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Maria White Lowell |
Morning Glory |
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
Rob Velella "Longfellow" |
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Nathaniel Parker Willis |
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Charles Eliot Norton |
Selection from Norton’s translation of Dante’s Paradise |
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Frances Sargent Osgood |
The Hand That Swept the Sounding Lyre |
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Fanny Parnell |
"Post Mortem" |
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Julia Ward Howe |
Poems Sing “Battle Hymn of the Republic” |
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Margaret Fuller |
Discussion of her Death, Rob Velella |
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Buckminster Fuller |
Selections of his poetry |
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Amy Lowell |
“ “ Marjory Wentworth |
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Robert Creeley |
"Stairway To Heaven" |
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Louise Chandler Moulton |
“In Memoriam” Written for her friend Louisa May Alcott |
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Christopher Pease Cranch |
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Gamaliel Bradford |
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John Pierpont Sr. |
Special Presentation By The Proper Ladies Then sing “Jingle Bells” |
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Caroline Frances Orne |
Selections From “Sweet Auburn” |
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David McCord |
Read his epitaph and poems |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Rhina Espaillat reading “Last Leaf” “Too Young For Love” |
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James Russell Lowell |
Special Presentation on Maria Lowell by The Proper Ladies |
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Henry Longfellow |
Rhina Espaillat reading: Shakespeare, The Singers, Chaucer Discussion of his grave, Rob Vellela |
6th Leg: 5:30 - 6:30 Author’s Ridge, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
(Rain Backup: Bring Umbrella or Colonial Inn)
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5:30 - 6:45. Author's Ridge, Sleepy Hollow, Concord, MA. |
A Special Visit from Henry Thoreau as he talks about his friends buried on Author’s Ridge. |
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William Channing |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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Henry Thoreau |
Reader: Carl Carlsen |
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Louisa May Alcott
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Reader: Rosanne Kramer |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Party at Concord's Colonial Inn |
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