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PBS film looks at Long Island poet Walt Whitman
The America around Walt Whitman's birthplace in West Hills today is not exactly the one he heard singing. There are parking lots to the north, south and west, while that particularly vast one to the east, across Route 110, serves Walt Whitman mall. Listen and you hear the roar of an 18-wheeler, the whine of a hundred SUVs.
Or - if you have a dog-eared copy of "Leaves of Grass" handy - maybe...
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