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In homage to the fallen president, he wrote the poems “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” and “O Captain! My Captain!”

The commemoration also will include music from the Kentucky Home Guard Band, a period Civil War-era brass band that will perform mournful music, and there will be a reading of Walt Whitman’s elegy, “O Captain! My Captain!”

The cocktail menu is small — just six choices on opening weekend, including the lush Bramble, made with Old Forester, Pimms and blackberry liqueur, and the intriguing O Captain, My Captain, which gets its funk and tartness from aged rum, Angostura bitters and carrot juice.

Amid the white-knuckle bets and trash talk, there was an “O captain, my captain” feel to the tournament.

"After this catharsis, a girl stands on her chair — riffing on the 'O Captain! My Captain!' scene from the movie 'Dead Poets Society' — to solemnly repeat the slogan back to the teacher and engage her in a cool handshake."