Virtual Tour: Walking The Walt Whitman Way

Join Walt Whitman Initiative President and NYU Professor Karen Karbiener for a virtual walking tour of Whitman’s Brooklyn. The tour offers an introduction to Whitman's earliest days in Brooklyn: it was in Brooklyn Heights that the Whitmans first settled when they moved to Brooklyn from Huntington, LI, in 1823. Whitman's membership in the Brooklyn Apprentice's Library (once located at the Henry/Cranberry intersection) gave the grammar school dropout his first access to books, and his years editing the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in its offices near the Fulton Ferry Landing sharpened his writing skills. We'll start our tour at the site of the first printing of Leaves of Grass, and end it with the view that inspired his seminar New York poem, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry." This tour is dedicated to Greg Trupiano (1955-2020), lifelong Brooklynite and Whitmaniac, cultural activist, consummate tour guide and dear friend. To learn more about Greg and the Whitman Initiative's public activism and programming, please visit: http://waltwhitmaninitiative.org/ For more events like this, become an Untapped New York Insider! https://untappedcities.com/become-a-member/