Walt Whitman's Fort Greene Park with Greg Trupiano, Nicole Mitchell, and Brandon Snook

A stroll sponsored by Fort Greene Park Conservancy and The Walt Whitman Project

Walk around Fort Greene Park, a greensward that owes its existence in large part to Walt Whitman’s editorials written for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and learn about this poet’s intimate connection with Brooklyn’s first official park. 

This afternoon includes discussions about the park, its role in the American Revolution and Civil War, the Wallabout Martyrs and the monument dedicated to their memory.. Weather permitting, this event concludes with a walk up Myrtle Avenue to 99 Ryerson Avenue, the last existing building in Brooklyn that was a residence of Walt Whitman. Your guide is Greg Trupiano, Artistic Director of The Walt Whitman Project.

Special guests:
Nicole Mitchell, contralto, singing songs of the 19th-century
Brandon Snook, tenor, singing songs by Gilda Lyons and Nkeiru Okoye composed to poems by Walt Whitman