![]() ![]() He remains the prototypical New Jersey writer: often pulled elsewhere, but tethered to this complex state. He completed the 1876 edition of Leaves of Grass there. I linger’d long and long, listening to them.” Whitman spent the last 20 years of his life in Camden, and often praised the city in his prose. amid the general silence otherways, and something in the acoustic quality of the air, musical, emotional effects, never thought of before. “I heard the echoing calls of the railroad men in the West Jersey depot yard, shifting and switching trains, engines, &c. ![]() ![]() What soothing, silent, wondrous hours, at night”-Walt Whitman paused before going home. After an 1879 ride on the Camden ferry-“What exhilaration, change, people, business, by day. ![]()
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