5/11/2008 How Do I Listen? Archived programs are streamed in the Real Audio Format. Click here to download   Problems Listening? Try this Direct Listen Link if the "Listen to Show" button to the right does not work   Hosted by: Dick Gordon Show Originally Aired: 7/5/2004 CALL 1 800-423-TALK Happy Birthday, Hawthorne! Nathaniel Hawthorne's grave. photo: Christine Fichera Email to friend View a multimedia celebration of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 200th birthday. Nathaniel Hawthorne's America, 200 years later. The aloof author of some of this nation's best-loved and most maudlin morality tales is still the star of high school syllabi everywhere. Why his message resonates as loudly now as it did in his day. Related Shows Forgetting Yourself: Memory and Identity The Connection (07/25/2000) The Joy of Sex The Connection (11/15/2002) Virginia Woolf The Connection (10/05/2000) Summer Rereading The Connection (07/05/2002) The Plight of the Single Girl The Connection (01/07/2003) Courtship and Marriage The Connection (06/27/2000) Philip McFarland, author of "Hawthorne in Concord" Brenda Wineapple, author of "Hawthorne: A Life."

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