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Under a spreading chestnut tree: Longfellow National Historic Site was home to a general who would become president and a poet who would become world famous.(Historic Highlights)(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)(George Washington)

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From: National Parks
Date: 20050322
Author:Kirkwood, Scott

This is the place. Stand still, my steed--Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.

These words from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow s "A Gleam of Sunshine" were conceived as the poet returned from visiting the home of Julia Ward Howe in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1844. But today they might just as well serve to invite visitors into his former home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where an incredible array of letters, books, photos, paintings, and artifacts attest to a uniquely American life.

Unlike many authors and poets whose work ...

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Under a spreading chestnut tree: Longfellow National Historic Site was home to a general who would become president and a poet who would become world famous.(Historic Highlights)(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)(George Washington)

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