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Music in Maine - Longfellow Family Music

"… language of humankind.” --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre Mer, 1835 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and family, Italy, 1869Maine Historical…"

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - People of the Wadsworth-Longfellow House

"People of the Wadsworth-Longfellow House Wadsworth-Longfellow House, Portland, ca. 1880Maine Historical Society Only two families occupied the…"

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland

"… Pierce from the Lewiston Journal, 1893 Wadsworth-Longfellow House Nearly HiddenMaine Historical Society When Peleg Wadsworth built his house…"

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

"… Historical Society Henry (Hen) Wadsworth Longfellow (1839-1874) Henry (Hen) Wadsworth Longfellow was the son of Stephen and Marianne Longfellow…"

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Wadsworth Era: 1786-1807

"The poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was named in his memory. Alexander Scammell Wadsworth (1790–1851) was the ninth child of Peleg and Elizabeth…"

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The House, 1786-1960

"… anchor in the peaceful haven of home." – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to his parents, 1826 When Peleg and Elizabeth Bartlett Wadsworth built their…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement

"… Wadsworth, grandfather of the noted poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, put forth an effort to place a separation bill in front of the General Court…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Quenching the Thirst

"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Craigie House, Cambridge, 1881NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site Henry Wadsworth…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1800-1830 - Page 1 of 2

"… all that survives to record what Zilpah Wadsworth Longfellow wore in mourning for her brother, Henry Wadsworth, who was killed in naval action with…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 2 of 3

"Lucia Wadsworth's "assembly dress," Portland, ca. 1799Maine Historical Society Reflective of eighteenth-century political upheavals, social change…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Missouri Compromise: A Moral Dilemma

"… line.[33] Initiated by Speaker of the House Henry Clay, the Missouri Compromise, as it was known, was tough to swallow for many Mainers."

Music in Maine - Civil War drum, ca. 1861

"… by Maine Historical Society Description Henry Green (1832-1901) of Portland carried this military style side drum in the 10th and 17th…"

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

"1845 Charles Henry Granger (1812-1893) Oil on canvas Collections of the York Institute Museum, Saco Saco painter Charles Henry Granger created this…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Women Leaders and Temperance

"Parade Bangor, September 15, 1909 Courtesy of Henry Gartley, original from the Herbert Cary family A view of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Business as Usual

"… the major figures of American industrialization, Henry Ford (born John Feeney in Portland), was an advocate for Prohibition in the States."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1865 to 1919: The Drys Gain New Adherents and Leaders

"Osgood, and Bangor physician Dr. Henry Reynolds were all instrumental in founding reform groups known for using red or blue ribbons as their symbols."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Politics and Enforcement

"He was allied with Dr. Henry A. Reynolds (1839-1922), a Bangor-born graduate of Bowdoin and Harvard colleges who became an alcoholic and a founder of…"

Music in Maine - Music Makers

"… so talented that in 1925, automobile tycoon Henry Ford sent a pullman train car to Norway, Maine to bring Dunham and his wife, Emma Richardson, to…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Overview & Introduction

"Overview & Introduction Cache of liquor, Portland, 1920Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Maine played a central role in the United…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Why Study the History of Drinking?

"Why Study the History of Drinking? The history of drinking in Maine and America is rich and complex."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Temperance Membership

"… Temperance Membership Back to: 1820 to 1865: Temperance and the Maine Law "The results of our agitation will be the expulsion from all the…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Influential & Interesting Documents

"Influential & Interesting Documents Back to: 1620 to 1820: New England's Great Secret X The Drunkard's Looking Glass, ca."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - The Continuing Debate

"The Continuing Debate Exhibition promotional poster, 1998 X Excessive drinking, once New England's secret, is now a recognized public issue."