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Ernest Longfellow was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and raised at Craigie House. He was the second of six children, including his younger sister Alice Mary Longfellow . Educated at Harvard College , he passed the winter of 1865 and '66 in Paris in work and study, and the summers of 1876 and '77 in Villiers-le-Bel under Couture . [ 1 ]
Longfellow supported abolitionism and especially hoped for reconciliation between the northern and southern states after the American Civil War. His son Charles was injured during the war, [86] and he wrote the poem "Christmas Bells", later the basis of the carol I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.
The last family to live in the home was the Longfellow family, who established the Longfellow Trust in 1913 for its preservation. In 1972, the home and all of its furnishings were donated to the National Park Service, and it is open to the public seasonally. It presents an example of mid-Georgian architecture style.
"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" is a Christmas carol based on the 1863 poem "Christmas Bells" by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. [1] The song tells of the narrator hearing Christmas bells during the American Civil War, but despairing that "hate is strong and mocks the song of peace on earth, good will to men". After much anguish ...
This 1759 Georgian house was used by George Washington as his residence during the 1775–76 Siege of Boston. In the 19th century it was purchased for poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) by his father-in-law, and is where Longfellow wrote many of his best-known works. [102] 76 + Lowell Locks and Canals Historic District
A copy of the print was found near the body of a soldier at the American Civil War Battle of Gettysburg after the July 1 – July 3, 1863 battle, now held by the Maine Historical Society. [4] In 1883, a year after the poet's death, a tableau vivant was staged titled Longfellow's Dream and featured his life and works, including "The Children's ...
My family lost the war, but they never lost power. UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1864: The Battle of Nashville, was a two-day battle in iin which the author's relative Col. E. W. Rucker took part.
Richard Henry Dana IV (1879–1933), a World War I conscientious objector and architect. [12] Henry "Harry" Wadsworth Longfellow Dana (1881–1950), [13] who became a gay liberationist, previously acquitted of a 1935 morals arrest. [14] Frances Appleton Dana (1883–1933), [15] who married Henry Casimir de Rham, a grandson of Charles de Rham ...