The Radio Reading Room
The Radio Reading Room features the Stories of Americana special Featured Segments feature stories and poetry from some of America's Classic authors, such as, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Frost, Emily Dickerson, T.S. Elliot and many more. The program is hosted and stories read by long time broadcast veteran and voice artist Myron Hieronymous Thomas. First aired over WQSA AM radio in Sarasota Florida in 1989 the program fast became a favorite of listeners and participants.
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Essay on Abraham Lincoln by Walt Whitman
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In this episode, we'll feature an essay written by Walt Whitman after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and appeared in the complete prose works of Walt Whitman, in 1892. Having met Lincoln personally, his essay on the slain president gives a first-person account of the man and, according to the author, his legacy. Read by Myron Hieronymous Thomas.