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Description: IN THIS HOUSE BUILT BY HIS FATHER WALT WHITMAN WAS BORN IN 1819. HE LIVED HERE 4 YEARS BEFORE HIS FATHER MOVED TO BROOKLYN TO BUILD HOMES. WALT WHITMAN BECAME FIRST A PRINTER, THEN TEACHER, AND THEN A NEWSPAPER FOUNDER AND EDITOR. THE “LONG ISLAND” WHICH HE FOUNDED IS STILL PUBLISHED. HIS MOST FAMOUS POETRY “THE LEAVES OF GRASS” WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN ITS ABBREVIATED FORM IN 1855
Title: WALT WHITMAN HOUSE
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Author: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD
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