8mm home movie footage of visitors entering The Longfellow House in 1957. It became The Longfellow National Historic Site as part of the National Park Service in 1972, and eventually The Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site.

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The 2024 Longfellow Summer Arts Festival

SUNDAYS AT 3PM, JUNE-SEPTEMBER • FREE AND OPEN TO ALL

Rescheduled September 29, 3:00 PM | Poetry Reading: Sarah Audsley and George Kalogeris

Sarah Audsley is the author of Landlock X (Texas Review Press). A Korean American adoptee, a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and a member of The Starlings Collective, Audsley lives and works in northern Vermont. She is the Writing Program Director at Vermont Studio Center.

George Kalogeris’s most recent book of poems is Winthropos, (Louisiana State University, 2021). He is also the author of Guide to Greece (LSU), a book of paired poems in translation, Dialogos, and poems based on the notebooks of Albert Camus, Camus: Carnets. His poems and translations have been anthologized in Joining Music with Reason, chosen by Christopher Ricks (Waywiser, 2010). He is the winner of the James Dickey Poetry Prize, the Stephen J. Meringoff Award, and the Sheila Margaret Motton Prize. For the past two decades, he has been the Director of the Classics Minor at Suffolk University.

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