The founder of the Dead Poets Society of America is halfway to his goal of visiting the gravesites of 500 poets.
Walter Skold is visiting the gravesite today of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s brother, Samuel, at Portland’s Western Cemetery — his 251st burial plot visit, marking the kickoff of events leading to Dead Poets Remembrance Day on Sunday.
Skold, of Freeport, pushed for a national holiday after he discovered that the graves of many of the nation’s literary forebears have been neglected.
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