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Tag Archives: Paul Revere
“What a writer asks of his reader is not so much to like as to listen.” — poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“He suffered excessive popularity; he has now suffered three quarters of a century of critical neglect.” – Michael Schmidt, Lives of the Poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on this day in 1807, in Portland, Maine. He was the first … Continue reading
Posted in Books, On This Day, writers
Tagged Harold Bloom, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, L.M. Montgomery, Michael Schmidt, Paul Revere, poetry, Walt Whitman
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Today In History: April 18-19, 1775: “I Set Off Upon a Very Good Horse”
On the night of April 18, into April 19, in 1775, Paul Revere made his famous ride. The spring of 1775 was a tense time. Prominent Bostonians were under constant threat of arrest from the British, and many of them … Continue reading
Posted in Founding Fathers, On This Day
Tagged Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Paul Revere, war
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Today in history: February 27, 1807
“Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Beautiful. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on this day, in 1807, … Continue reading
Posted in On This Day, writers
Tagged Charles Dickens, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michael Schmidt, Paul Revere, poetry
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Today in history: April 18-19, 1775: “I set off upon a very good Horse”
On the night of April 18, into April 19, in 1775, Paul Revere made his famous ride. The spring of 1775 was a tense time. Prominent Bostonians were under constant threat of arrest from the British, and many of them … Continue reading
Posted in Founding Fathers, On This Day
Tagged Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Paul Revere, war
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On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.
On the night of April 18, into April 19, in 1775, Paul Revere made his famous ride. The spring of 1775 was a tense time. Prominent Bostonians were under constant threat of arrest from the British, and many of them … Continue reading
Posted in Founding Fathers, On This Day
Tagged Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Paul Revere, war
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Today in history, March 5, 1770
The Boston Massacre. Probably should say “massacre” – with quotation marks – since “massacre” was a bit of a stretch – and used more for propaganda purposes. Same as Paul Revere’s famous engraving – which is pretty much how we, … Continue reading
“On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year”
Are there more magical words in the world of literature than: “an earlier draft has been discovered”?? As in: In Longfellow’s papers, Charlie found what appears to be the first complete draft of “Paul Revere’s Ride.” My love of Longfellow’s … Continue reading
Today in history: March 5, 1770
The Boston Massacre. Probably should say “massacre” – with quotation marks – since “massacre” was a bit of a stretch – and used more for propaganda purposes. Same as Paul Revere’s famous engraving – which is pretty much how we, … Continue reading
Today in history: April 18-19, 1775
On the night of April 18, into April 19, in 1775, Paul Revere made his famous ride. The spring of 1775 was a tense time. Prominent Bostonians were under constant threat of arrest from the British, and many of them … Continue reading
Geek Moments Involving the Founders
— I cannot even describe how happy it makes me that on my daily run I pass the spot (sort of) where the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr took place. There’s a big bust of my dead boyfriend … Continue reading
Posted in Founding Fathers
Tagged Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Paul Revere
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