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...spreading chestnut tree is just a gray tombstone along the walk but modern Brattle Street retains much of the antique flavor that delighted Longfellow almost a century ago. All you have to do is look for it. Up past the bustle of the Post Office and retail shops stands the remains of Tory Row, a group of old houses which haven't changed much since they were confiscated by patriot fathers in the days of the Revolution. Several ageless landmarks lie between Story and Hilliard Streets. just a block from Brattle Square; and of these, Perhaps the most interesting...
...this very house lived old Dexter Pratt, whose popular blacksmith shop had been built next door at the corner of Story Street. Walking daily between Craigie House and Harvard Hall, Professor Longfellow Habitually stopped to chat with the genial forget tender. A strong friendship developed between the two, climaxed in 1839 when the poet immortalized smithy in a work that has been chanted by American schoolboys ever since...
Although the Transcript came to symbolize the twilight of New England's culture, Boston remembered also that the Transcript had once symbolized the flowering of that culture. Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Thoreau had been its contributors ; it had had one of the first women editors in U.S. journalism; had introduced the first women's page, the first church page. Above all it had become as inseparably part of New England traditions as Faneuil Hall or the Tea Party...
...other day President Roosevelt gave his opponent in the late Presidential election a letter of introduction to me, and in it he wrote out a verse in his own handwriting from Longfellow which he said 'applies to you people as it does to us.' Here is the verse...
...great many famous people have traded with Billings and Stover. Nearly all the big names in Harvard history for the past eighty-five years are recorded in the prescription books, of which there are 112. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had a prescription filed once for stomach trouble. All the Roosevelts, too, from the elder Kermit and Teddy on down to our contemporaries, have been regular customers. Mr. Mahoney speaks of Norman Prince, who was the first American to die with the Lafayette Escadrille. And Mr. Justice Frankfurter, though now in Washington, still keeps his account at Billings and Stover. Only...