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  The Address  
 


At the tiny Greenwood School in Putney, VT, fifty boys, ages 11 to 16, struggle through myriad learning differences to memorize and recite the Gettysburg Address, a rite of passage at the school for the last 35 years.  Past failures and humiliations are heroically confronted as their presentations open the door to, what Lincoln himself called, “a new birth of freedom.”

Interweaving the history of this most famous of American speeches with the contemporary journey of the boys at Greenwood, The Address reveals the timeless resonance of the President’s words while culminating in the triumph of the contemporary human spirit.


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