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Thread #65237 Message #1075246
Posted By: JJ
18-Dec-03 - 07:17 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: When/what was the wreck of the Hesperus'
Subject: RE: Folklore: When/what was the wreck of the Hesperus'
My mother (b. 1920) used this phrase often. She grew up in Marion, Indiana. We also had a volume of Longfellow in which I finally read the poem and figured out what she was talking about.
I (b. 1946) am of the last generation who had to learn poems in school. I grew up twenty miles south of Pittsburgh. However, we did Longfellow's "The Bridge" in sixth grade, not "The Wreck of the Hesperus."