Archive for November, 2009
Wednesday, 25 November 2009 by admin in Historical Whitman • 0 Comments
“Horace, we are all under a goverment of millionaires … this is a phase we are going through…”
“Then you don’t think we’ll always have millionaire governments?”
“You don’t need to ask me such a question: the people, the people who are now asleep, will yet wake up.”
– Walt Whitman, Horace Traubel, circa 1888
Tuesday, 3 November 2009 by admin in Historical Whitman, Whitman today • 0 Comments
Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly Joseph J. Roberts has secured for Camden’s Walt Whitman House a $2 million grant. This will support renovation of the house and the adjoining properties. Over the next eighteen months, the new complex will add a visitor’s center, library, and multipurpose room.
Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly
You can thank Mr Roberts for his leadership via his website.