Public Programs

May 25, 2005 at noon

Co-curators Alice Birney (MSS) and Barbara Bair (MSS) will lead a tour of the exhibition within the American Treasures gallery.

May 31, 2005 at noon

Television and radio personality Robert Aubry Davis reads from Leaves of Grass to mark Whitman's birthday, May 31, 1819.
Pickford Theater, third floor of the Library's James Madison Building.

September 14, 2005 at noon

A gallery talk by curator Barbara Bair will examine Whitman's life in Washington during the Civil War.
In the exhibition within the American Treasures gallery.

September 21, 2005 at noon

A gallery talk by curator Alice Birney will explore the evolution of Leaves of Grass
In the exhibition within the American Treasures gallery.

November 3, 2005 at noon

Whitman and Place symposium with Joann Krieg, Hofstra University; Ten Genoways, University of Virginia; and William Pannapacker, Hope College speaking on "Walt Whitman in New York," "Whitman and the Civil War," and "Whitman in Camden-Philadelphia."
Pickford Theater, third floor of the Library's James Madison Building.