Barbara Frietchie

John Greenleaf Whittier

Barbara Frietchie is a arts podcast hosted by John Greenleaf Whittier. It has 4 episodes, with the latest published June 2006.

This was the weekly poem for Flag Day 2006. It tells the largely-apocryphal but nonetheless inspiring story of one old woman’s act of patriotism during a Confederate advance in the civil war. (summary by LauraFox)

arts ·en ·4 episodes