Walt Whitman presentation set for tonight

Press release

The Montana State University-Northern Chancellor’s Lecture Series will host “Walt Whitman and the Civil War” with Dave Caserio and Parker Brown tonight at the Applied Technology Center in the university’s Hensler Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.

The presentation is free and open to the public.

Caserio presents a dramatic, high-energy, Reader's-Theatre performance based on the work of Walt Whitman followed by an open-ended discussion of the material and the literary, contemporary, and historical questions and issues that it invokes. His performance is accompanied by Parker Brown on acoustic bass. Based on the poetry, prose, journals, and letters of Walt Whitman, Caserio takes the audience from the election of Abraham Lincoln to the heady onset of the Civil War, from battlefield to the hospital ward, through the long years of war to the conflict's end and the death of Lincoln. The Civil War is one of the central experiences of our country; it not only preserved the Union but redefined the ideals that governed that Union. Whitman, as poet, nurse, and journalist, witnessed this enduring American experience.

For more information, people can call Northern at 265-3700.

People can visit the website to see the Fall-2016Chancellor's Lecture Series at msun.edu/news/calendar/events2016/ChancellorSeries.aspx.