At 200, the Brooklyn Museum Looks Forward

Later in life, the great poet Walt Whitman recalled the events of the Fourth of July, 1825. At around 6 years old, he wrote, he attended the cornerstone laying ceremony of the Brooklyn Apprentices’ Library, which had been incorporated a year earlier. The man who later penned “Song of Myself” said…

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