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WALT WHITMAN HOUSE
Free show at Wiggins Park;
ride Patco over to Rand T.C.
& walk past Walt Whitman’s home.
A barbaric yawp may
awaken the learned astronomer
& startle a noiseless, patient spider
but we have to sound that sound
The music will be fine
as the Delaware River rises to the dock
and the old RCA Victor building
now houses condominiums.
A baseball park replaces
the old, historic Campbell soup factory.
We’ll speak not of bygone days
but decaying city or not
at least for this night
the air will be filled with song
and hope for better days
will bloom with the fragrance
of exquisite lilacs.
Twenty Years Later
30, 40, 50 years after first encounters, enjoying what was built 100 years earlier, 50, 30, 20 years ago. We do not plan cities well or preserve our history. Continuity is not a usa priority in too many cities. In Detroit, they tore down The Graystone Ballroom. - slc
Philly has done all right to
Philly has done all right to an extent. We have a lot of historical buildings but we also have McDonald's and 7-11 sitting where once great events took place.