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  • They were just kids, and didn't know Whittier's poem or what supposedly happened in their town.

    The Prince of Beers Con Chapman 2010

  • After the lights had been turned out and the prisoners settled down for the night, the silence of death row was broken by Parson's voice, reciting Whittier's poem "The Reformer": Whether on the gallows high,

    Nine to Five Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • After the lights had been turned out and the prisoners settled down for the night, the silence of death row was broken by Parson's voice, reciting Whittier's poem "The Reformer": Whether on the gallows high,

    Archive 2008-08-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Some residents think of prospecting for oil as a return to the Whittier's glory days.

    The Derrick Next Door: Suburb Explores a Crude Solution to Its Budget Woes 2009

  • "The numbers I've been shown, wow, they're unbelievable," says Greg Nordbak, Whittier's mayor pro tem.

    The Derrick Next Door: Suburb Explores a Crude Solution to Its Budget Woes 2009

  • "If this could come in, this could certainly endow Whittier's future for the next 100 years," he says.

    The Derrick Next Door: Suburb Explores a Crude Solution to Its Budget Woes 2009

  • In the meantime, some may wish to take another look at John Greenleaf Whittier's "Snowbound."

    Let it snow ... Frank Wilson 2006

  • In 1989, when Justices Scalia and Kennedy, both First Amendment libertarians, reluctantly voted to strike down a ban on flag-burning, Rehnquist produced an emotional dissenting opinion quoting John Greenleaf Whittier's Civil War poem "Barbara Frietchie": "'Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,/But spare your country's flag,' she said."

    Rehnquist the Great? 2005

  • In 1989, when Justices Scalia and Kennedy, both First Amendment libertarians, reluctantly voted to strike down a ban on flag-burning, Rehnquist produced an emotional dissenting opinion quoting John Greenleaf Whittier's Civil War poem "Barbara Frietchie": "'Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,/But spare your country's flag,' she said."

    Rehnquist the Great? 2005

  • In 1989, when Justices Scalia and Kennedy, both First Amendment libertarians, reluctantly voted to strike down a ban on flag-burning, Rehnquist produced an emotional dissenting opinion quoting John Greenleaf Whittier's Civil War poem "Barbara Frietchie": "'Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,/But spare your country's flag,' she said."

    Rehnquist the Great? 2005

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