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Evangeline Trivia

Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge

Longfellow was educated at Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Maine. One of his classmates there was—wait for it—none other than Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Henry W. knew a thing or two about that sorrow of losing love. He lost two wives in his life, one as a result of a miscarriage and one in a fire.
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Even though he pretty much disses England in this poem, Longfellow is one of the few American poets to be commemorated at Poet's Corner, in Westminster Abbey in London.
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