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Walt Whitman takes Camden, New Jersey tourists beyond the waterfront

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20060615
Author:GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press Writer

GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
06-15-2006
Dateline: CAMDEN, New Jersey
It doesn't take much time in this city to have doubts about a line its most famous resident, 19th century poet Walt Whitman, wrote about it: "I dream'd in a dream I saw a city invincible."

In the decades after Whitman died here in 1892, the city just east of Philadelphia became a center of industry, home to RCA and Campbell Soup. But then Camden declined into one of the poorest cities in the country, a place best-known for government corruption and crime.

Now, local boosters are trying to get ...

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