In the silence of falling snow, sleigh bells and laughter crescendo as the Longfellow family, bundled in winter ... fighting to want to live. For Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, as one war rages ...

(Parts of this column were first published as an editorial in the York Daily Record/Sunday News at Christmas in 2014) American poet Henry Wadsworth ... for the Longfellow family of Massachusetts ...

Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Sr. lived in the eclipse of his famous brother, the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Then Alexander’s son, Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr., ...

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In his day, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ... and written about family in America. Everyone knew his children’s names; schoolchildren celebrated his birthday. Fanny Longfellow was the first ...

On Christmas Day 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow sat in his chair at his ... not under a Christmas tree or through a toy aisle at a department store. Christmas is a call not to be perfect ...

The most famous person in this family was 19th-century poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who grew up in the home. Along with its esteemed namesake, the home is also important to Portland and U.S ...

In generations past, what child did not memorize “Listen, my children, and you shall hear/Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere” and other stirring lines from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ...