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Longfellow Days Celebration
, Brunswick, Maine
February 2 through March1, 2008.
     

A Brunswick community celebration of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow!

Longfellow Days: an annual Celebration of Community inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet, Maine native, Bowdoin College alumni and professor.

Longfellow & the Network to Freedom takes place over four weeks from February 2 through March1, 2008. The series features lecures by noted historians, silent film with live piano, devotions with dance and music, and five separate poetry events. All relate to the struggle for abolition and focus on Brunswick's thriving African-American community during the 1800's as well as the role of Brunswick figures associated with Bowdoin College, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

With the exception of the silent film, all Longfellow Days events are free of charge. All are handicapped accessible. Longfellow Days is sponsored by Brunswick Downtown Association, Bowdoin College, and the Town of Brusnwick Nathaniel Davis Fund.

You're Invited!

Join us for an eclectic mix of family entertaiment and educational experiences. Enjoy top-flight lectures, poetry-readings, concerts, exhibits and tours. The public is invited - bring the kids! This is a unique opportunity to enjoy a community-wide mix of entertainment, history and cultural enrichment. Most activities are free, some charge. See details of events below.

 

Longfellow Days Events!

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Longfellow

Are you up on your Longfellow?

Read the "Wikipedia" article on Longfellow

Read about his poem Evangeline, and read the poem itself here.

Tell me more about Longfellow and his relationship to Brunswick, Maine

View the Bowdoin College page on Longfellow

Trivia Question#1:
What American music artist recorded an album in 1981 named "Evangeline"?
Answer

Trivia Question#2:
Evangeline was a popular baby name, ranking in the top 1000 names given to baby girls born in the US until what decade?
Answer:

Horse rides
above: dozens of family events are planned. See calendar at left.

 

About: Longfellow and Brunswick, Maine

Longfellow graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick along with his
classmate, Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1825.  He served as Bowdoin's first
professor of modern languages, creating his own text books for the courses
and residing with his bride, Mary Potter, in a home that later became the
second story of the home of Brunswick's Civil War hero, Joshua Chamberlain.

Trivia Question#1:
What American music artist recorded an album in 1981 named "Evangeline"?
ans: Emmylou Harris

Trivia Question #2:
Evangeline was a popular baby name, ranking in the top 1000 names given to baby girls born in the US until what decade?
ans: starting with 1900 until the 1960's, Evangeline was in the top 1000 names given
to baby girls across the US. Source: Mid Coast Hospital website
which uses data from the Social Security administration.

 

 



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