The Chestnut Chair, ca. 1876
Item 15476 info
NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
When the "spreading chestnut tree" that inspired his paean to the village blacksmith of Cambridge was cut down so a road could be widened, local school children contributed their pennies toward a chair made from its wood.
They presented it to Longfellow on his 73rd birthday.
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