John Greenleaf Whittier wrote the “Ballad of Barbara Frietchie” which first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in October, 1863. He received heated protests, as well as praise. The debate made headlines ...

Barbara Frietchie, by John Greenleaf Whittier. The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Open Letter to My Ancestors” by Mary Ruefle, and his own poem “The Game.” The sale demonstrates the ...

It’s John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Barbara Fritchie,” an American classic. For many decades, schoolchildren memorized and recited the story of how, as Confederate troops were passing through her ...

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Then Stonewall Jackson, marching his Confederate troops through Frietchie's hometown of Frederick, Md., told his men, according to the poet, "Who touches a hair of yon gray head dies like a dog! March ...

With its most quotable lines—"Shoot if you must this old gray head/But spare your country's flag she said''—John Greenleaf Whittier's eponymous poem "Barbara Fritchie" immortalized one of Maryland's ...

I don’t recall how I knew of the John Greenleaf Whittier poem “Barbara Frietchie” in June of 1967. After all, there was no Google then. But I do recall using its two most memorable lines in my ...

Jul. 3—No one expected Barbara Fritchie herself to come to her own mural unveiling. But there she was, the self-proclaimed "old gray head," standing on the balcony of her Frederick home and waving the ...

I don’t recall how I knew of the John Greenleaf Whittier poem “Barbara Frietchie” in June of 1967. After all, there was no Google then. But I do recall using its two most memorable lines in my ...