Homeschool teachers you will love this video! Excellent quality, in-depth, but not boring. Very good visuals to keep students engaged. Doesn't go on and on unnecessarily. Thank you!
For a city that cares about it's own history so much why did they remove the original two cemeterys in uptown where it's first citizens were laid to rest and all of the headstones were left in a pile behind the whittier museum for years.
Also ask why they left the bodies in "Deadmans park" (I forget the real name) but there's a park where they just moved the headstones & left the bodies. Atleast they put up a memorial to those who are still there..
Read more about Whittier and his poem, "Barbara Frietchie," in the book released in June 2020. "The Mystery of Barbara Fritchie a True Patriot," can be ordered at www.tamarathayerbooks.org
In the poem entitled “Yorktown," referring to the compromises of the Constitution, and the perpetuation of our “peculiar institutions” in the United States, John Greenleaf Whittier breaks forth in these indignant stanzas opposing the Mexican American war of 1846: Oh! fields still green and fresh in story, Old days of pride, old names of glory, Old marvels of the tongue and pen, Old thoughts which stirred the hearts of men ! Ye spared the wrong; and over all Behold the avenging shadow fall! Your world-wide honor stained with shame, Your Freedom's self a hollow name. Where's now the flag of that old war? Where flow its stripes? Where burns its star ? Bear witness, Palo Alto's day, Dark Vale of Palms, red Monterey, Where Mexic Freedom, young and weak, Fleshes the Northern eagle's beak: Symbol of terror and despair, Of chains and slaves, go seek it there !" Laugh, Prussia, 'midst thy iron ranks! Laugh, Russia, from thy Neva's banks! Brave sport to see the fledgling born Of Freedom, by its parents torn ! Safe now your Speilburg's dungeon cell, Safe drear Siberia's frozen hell, With Slavery's flag o'er both unrolled, What of the New World fears the Old?" -from the “war with Mexico reviewed, By Abiel Livermore”
Why did they either move the barefoot boy or redo the place where he sits? It used to be enclosed in trees & bushes. Like an enchanted little glade in the middle of the city. So sad that they changed it. That spot was beautiful.
I am not 100% certain of it, but I believe I may be related to John Greenleaf Whittier on my father's side of the family...I overheard my grandfather mention his name upon his return from a visit to his family in Portland, Maine...he brought the family tree back with him but I didnt get to see it, being very young . The way I found out about the abolitionist association is rather eerie and strange and too much to say here...but Time has endeared me to the poet with whom I feel I share more in common than any person I know, except my maternal grandfather; he also is deceased and someone I never met!
As am I. On my mother's side. All whittiers. They did genetic testing. The men in my family have Greenleaf as a middle name. Did you know John is related to HH Holmes. Not very pleasant stuff. But John was a great man. Perhaps we are kin. Best wishes to you.
John Greenleaf Whittier's younger brother, Mathew Franklin Whittier, was a talented author in his own right, but published anonymously. For this reason, he is only historically known as the author of one satirical anti-slavery series featuring "Ethan Spike." I have posted a paper entitled "An Overview of the True Literary Legacy of Mathew Franklin Whittier," which is downloadable at the following link. It can also be found by searching on the title on Academia.edu. www.ial.goldthread.com/Overview.pdf
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Homeschool teachers you will love this video! Excellent quality, in-depth, but not boring. Very good visuals to keep students engaged. Doesn't go on and on unnecessarily. Thank you!
I do not understand why this video has so few visits? Because the information is pure ground gold!
Very nice video, a tribute to a great man and to the founders of Whittier. So many of the street names are founders or related to Pennsylvania.
Super educational video quality and information. Love it!
He is a ancestor of mine
Mine too. I found out in details a few years back...
For a city that cares about it's own history so much why did they remove the original two cemeterys in uptown where it's first citizens were laid to rest and all of the headstones were left in a pile behind the whittier museum for years.
Also ask why they left the bodies in "Deadmans park" (I forget the real name) but there's a park where they just moved the headstones & left the bodies. Atleast they put up a memorial to those who are still there..
I lived on Greenleaf ave!
Read more about Whittier and his poem, "Barbara Frietchie," in the book released in June 2020. "The Mystery of Barbara Fritchie a True Patriot," can be ordered at www.tamarathayerbooks.org
In the poem entitled “Yorktown," referring to the compromises of the Constitution, and the perpetuation of our “peculiar institutions” in the United States, John Greenleaf Whittier breaks forth in these indignant stanzas opposing the Mexican American war of 1846:
Oh! fields still green and fresh in story, Old days of pride, old names of glory, Old marvels of the tongue and pen, Old thoughts which stirred the hearts of men ! Ye spared the wrong; and over all
Behold the avenging shadow fall!
Your world-wide honor stained with shame, Your Freedom's self a hollow name. Where's now the flag of that old war? Where flow its stripes? Where burns its star ? Bear witness, Palo Alto's day,
Dark Vale of Palms, red Monterey,
Where Mexic Freedom, young and weak, Fleshes the Northern eagle's beak: Symbol of terror and despair, Of chains and slaves, go seek it there !" Laugh, Prussia, 'midst thy iron ranks! Laugh, Russia, from thy Neva's banks! Brave sport to see the fledgling born Of Freedom, by its parents torn ! Safe now your Speilburg's dungeon cell, Safe drear Siberia's frozen hell, With Slavery's flag o'er both unrolled, What of the New World fears the Old?"
-from the “war with Mexico reviewed, By Abiel Livermore”
Why did they either move the barefoot boy or redo the place where he sits? It used to be enclosed in trees & bushes. Like an enchanted little glade in the middle of the city. So sad that they changed it. That spot was beautiful.
I'm related to this man.
I am not 100% certain of it,
but I believe I may be related
to John Greenleaf Whittier
on my father's side of the
family...I overheard my
grandfather mention his
name upon his return from
a visit to his family in
Portland, Maine...he brought the family tree
back with him but I didnt
get to see it, being very
young . The way I found
out about the abolitionist
association is rather eerie
and strange and too much
to say here...but Time has
endeared me to the poet
with whom I feel I share
more in common than any
person I know, except my
maternal grandfather; he also is deceased and someone I never met!
As am I. On my mother's side. All whittiers. They did genetic testing. The men in my family have Greenleaf as a middle name. Did you know John is related to HH Holmes. Not very pleasant stuff. But John was a great man. Perhaps we are kin. Best wishes to you.
I know without a doubt that i am related to him...on my moms side...the whittier name runs strong in my family still
nice
John Greenleaf Whittier's younger brother, Mathew Franklin Whittier, was a talented author in his own right, but published anonymously. For this reason, he is only historically known as the author of one satirical anti-slavery series featuring "Ethan Spike." I have posted a paper entitled "An Overview of the True Literary Legacy of Mathew Franklin Whittier," which is downloadable at the following link. It can also be found by searching on the title on Academia.edu.
www.ial.goldthread.com/Overview.pdf
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