I’m Denise Low reading poems about rivers as part of The Radio Readers Book Club’s 2021 Fall Read Rivers – Meandering Meaning. Rivers make me meander back to some of the first poetry I ever read, like this poem about the Nile by an unnamed Egyptian, translated by Ezra Pound,Nothing, nothing can keep me from my loveStanding on the other shore.
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The 50 Most Visited Historic Sites in America
By Wyatt Massey, Stacker News
On 5/12/21 at 8:00 PM EDT
An unidentified person on a bench that overlooks a valley and beyond, the Hudson River, at the Vanderbilt Mansion Historic Site, Hyde Park, New York, 2018.
John Kisch Archive/Getty Images
From the Underground Railroad to presidential porches, historical sites offer visitors a new experience and a social studies lesson all in one. At historic sites across the nation, tourists can enter into a different time, worldview, or social status with nothing more than a park pass. We can visit some locations to pay our respects to painful pasts, and others to celebrate American icons and pioneers.
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