Bowman’s Creek, Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania

Now into the fall, early October—I’m reminded of a September two years ago, passing through Tunkhannock on my way home from my son’s first cross-country invitational of the year at Misericordia College. It was wet, having rained for several days, and I pulled my car into the rest stop that borders Bowman’s Creek along Route …

Sizing Up Walt Whitman & Friends

It’s about this time that I’m usually wrapping up my teaching of American Romanticism. We’ve made it through Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and we’re just about done with my favorite, Henry David Thoreau. Over the years, I’ve made deletions and additions to the scope and sequence, hoping …