Maine Memory Network

Alice Longfellow, age 9, ca. 1860

Contributed by: NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site Date: circa 1860 Location: Boston; Cambridge Media: Photographic print

Alice Mary Longfellow, Cambridge, ca. 1870

Contributed by: NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site Date: 1870 Location: Cambridge Media: Watercolor on paper

145 Longfellow Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Alice E. Locke Use: Dwelling - Single family

21-23 Longfellow Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Alice S. Marr Use: Dwelling - Two family

Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.

Drawing Together: Art of the Longfellows

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is best know as a poet, but he also was accomplished in drawing and music. He shared his love of drawing with most of his siblings. They all shared the frequent activity of drawing and painting with their children. The extended family included many professional as well as amateur artists, and several architects.

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901

"1855NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow (1814-1901) Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Taverns, People, and Scenes

"Alice Greele's tavern, Portland, 1775Maine Historical Society Mrs. Greele's Tavern, 1770, created ca."

Longfellow Studies: The Writer's Hour - "Footprints on the Sands of Time"

Grade Level: 3-5 Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
These lessons will introduce the world-famous American writer and a selection of his work with a compelling historical fiction theme. Students take up the quest: Who was HWL and did his poetry leave footprints on the sands of time? They will "tour" his Cambridge home through young eyes, listen, and discuss poems from a writer’s viewpoint, and create their own poems inspired by Longfellow's works. The interdisciplinary approach utilizes critical thinking skills, living history, technology integration, maps, photos, books, and peer collaboration. The mission is to get students keenly interested in what makes a great writer by using Longfellow as a historic role model. The lessons are designed for students at varying reading levels. Slow learners engage in living history with Alice’s fascinating search through the historic Craigie house, while gifted and talented students may dramatize the virtual tour as a monologue. Constant discovery and exciting presentations keep the magic in lessons. Remember that, "the youthful mind must be interested in order to be instructed." Students will build strong writing skills encouraging them to leave their own "footprints on the sands of time."