The Flag and the Faithful


Read by LibriVox Volunteers

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Flag and the Faithful by William J. Lampton. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 20, 2013.

William J. Lampton was the second cousin of Jane Clemens (the youngest of the three daughters of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain.)
He launched his journalist career in 1877 by starting the Ashland (Kentucky) Weekly Review, with his father’s money. Lampton wrote several book, as well as humorous poems he called 'yawps'. These were printed in the New York Sun and published in Yawps and Other Things ca. 1900. (Summary taken from Wikipedia and the Mark Twain Project) (0 hr 12 min)

Chapters

The Flag and the Faithful - Read by BM 1:15 Read by Bill Mosley
The Flag and the Faithful - Read by CC 0:58 Read by Chiquito Crasto
The Flag and the Faithful - Read by CMP 1:09 Read by CaprishaPage
The Flag and the Faithful - Read by DL 0:59 Read by David Lawrence
The Flag and the Faithful - Read by JM 0:57 Read by Jannie Meisberger
The Flag and the Faithful - Read by LAH 1:02 Read by Lee Ann Howlett
The Flag and the Faithful - Read by LD 0:54 Read by Linda Dougherty
The Flag and the Faithful - Read by MC 0:57 Read by mlcui
The Flag and the Faithful - Read by PG 1:09 Read by Philip Gross
The Flag and the Faithful - Read by RN 1:07 Read by ravenotation
The Flag and the Faithful - Read by TM 1:00 Read by Tom Merritt
The Flag and the Faithful - Read by WAC 0:48 Read by William A Crenshaw