{"id":831,"date":"2016-08-19T11:16:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T15:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=831"},"modified":"2016-08-19T11:16:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T15:16:50","slug":"harriet-beecher-stowe-in-brunswick-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=831","title":{"rendered":"Harriet Beecher Stowe in Brunswick, Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Harriet<\/a>There’s a “new kid on the block” – that is, another historic house in Maine open to the public, and a literary site, too. The house where Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” can now be visited.\u00a0Well, at least one of the rooms –\u00a0“Harriet’s Writing Room” is a public exhibit space commemorating Stowe’s literary legacy. The home is a National Historic Landmark and a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Site. Harriet also sheltered a slave in her home, John Andrew Jackson, while living in this house on Federal Street in Brunswick.<\/p>\n

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Why was Harriet Beecher Stowe in Brunswick? Her husband Calvin was a professor at Bowdoin College, his alma mater. They lived there only a short time – from 1850 to 1852 – but what a lot Harriet accomplished. Much of her\u00a0over 500 page book was written there; a book which \u00a0which would soon become a classic, and would influence laying the groundwork of the Civil War. All while raising children and running a household (and sheltering slaves).<\/p>\n

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For more information: http:\/\/bowdoin.edu\/stowe-house<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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There’s a “new kid on the block” – that is, another historic house in Maine open to the public, and a literary site, too. The house where Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” can now be visited.\u00a0Well, at least one of the rooms –\u00a0“Harriet’s Writing Room” is a public exhibit space commemorating Stowe’s literary … Continue reading Harriet Beecher Stowe in Brunswick, Maine<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[367,366,351,369,368],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-uncategorized","tag-brunswick-maine","tag-harriet-beecher-stowe-house","tag-literary-sites","tag-uncle-toms-cabin","tag-women-authors"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}