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Young poets from Manhasset visit Walt Whitman's birthplace

English honor students from Saint Mary's High School took an educational field trip today to see the West Hills home where celebrated poet Walt Whitman was born in 1819. The young writers couldn't come

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Mar 14, 2012, 5:16 PM

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