I’m honored that my article on Fredericksburg National Cemetery is the Memorial Day feature for The New York Times Disunion column. The source of the Walt Whitman quotes…
My article on the terrain of Fredericksburg, The Fall Line’s Fault is up at New York Times Disunion. Here’s a little gallery of photos I’ve taken at…
If the roots of Whitman’s witness tree were bathed in the anguish the poet beheld, no wonder its form holds such tortured beauty. Walt Whitman…
And you trees down in your roots… And you trees down in your roots to bequeath to all future trees, My dead absorb or South…
Ginger was used in nineteenth-century medicine to treat everything from scurvy to cholera to impotence to lead poisoning. And, as in TR Hummer’s poem “Whitman’s…