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...Longfellow first began living in the Georgian-style home in 1837 as a boarder but later bought the home. He lived there for the last 45 years of his life...
Even historical sites need gunmicks to draw people. This year curators of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow home, located on Brattle St. just beyond Radcliffe Yard, have decided to invite people to four the 226 year old house in celebration of the poet and former Harvard professor's 183rd birthday...
...have much of a visitation during the winter," said an employee of the home, which has been run by the National Part Service since 1971, when the historically-furnished home was donated by the Longfellow family During the summer, the landmart which was also the first headquarters for George Washington's troops gets about 75 visitors a day, but that figure drops to as low as 20 a day on winter weekends...
Rorem's new oratorio, based on texts by Poe, Longfellow, Twain, Crane, Melville, Whitman, Emma Lazarus and Sidney Lanier, is one of four premieres this season for the prolific composer, and it too treads familiar ground. Best known for his art songs and his candid, elegantly written diaries recounting his life and loves in Paris, New York and elsewhere, the composer, 61, has long been a conservative voice in American music. He speaks in a basically breezy 1940s tonality, which is leavened by a few more recent technical advances. In An American Oratorio, Rorem's style works effectively with gentle...
...Council Bluffs, Iowa, more than half the 343 students at Longfellow Elementary School boycotted classes to protest the enrollment of a three-year- old girl with herpes. The local teachers' union filed suit to prevent her from attending preschool there. The child, whose name has not been revealed, suffers every five months or so from an eruption of sores on her thighs, forearms or hands...