Greenblatt portrays the fiddling poet

NEBRASKA CITY - Humanities Nebraska speaker Deborah Greenblatt will present the program James Whitcomb Riley, the Fiddling Children’s Poet at the Morton-James Public Library at 7 p.m. on Nov. 7.

In the program, Greenblatt uses Riley’s own words to weave a whimsical glimpse into the world of the famous Hoosier poet.

This show, performed in character and in costume, features musical settings of Riley’s poems composed by Greenblatt, as well as portions of Riley’s lectures (he toured with Edgar Allan Poe) and letters (he corresponded with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).