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Join us for our literary tour of the Longfellow House where you will hear his timeless poems in the very rooms that inspired them and experience what Abraham Lincoln called his “gift to stir souls.”You will also hear the origin stories behind his poetry that have never been told before, as well as recently discovered secrets, unknown to a century of biographers, that we can now tell.
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Registration is required for this event: https://www.mainehistory.org/events/how-henry-became-longfellow/
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About the presenter: Gemma Cannon, a graduate from Holy Cross College and Columbia University School of Social Work, received the Nautilus Book Award in the category of Death & Dying/ Grief & Loss for Voices of the Night. In her award-winning book, she combines wisdom from Longfellow with lessons from her social work clients. They taught her that, whether homeless in Times Square or a world-class poet and writer, we're not always fortunate, and we all need inner strength and hope to survive a crisis. She lives with her family near Longfellow's boyhood home in Portland, Maine, "the beautiful city by the sea."
Image: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, London, ca. 1868, Collections of Maine Historical Society, MMN Item 4114
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489 Congress St, Portland, ME, United States, Maine 04101
