“I was there […] and had a good time”

We see Walt Whitman all over the place – on a farm, hunting in the wilds, on a ship, down by the shoreline, at a marriage between a trapper and a native woman, welcoming and protecting a runaway-slave, and finally watching a lonely rich woman joining (in imagination) 28 young men swimming nude in the sea. [As heard on Cambridge Radio]

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