Group Size: 40 to 80 students (max of 40 students at each site)
Grades: 3 – 8
Price: $3 per student
Total Length: 2.5 hours (60 – 75 minutes at each site)
Available: April – December
Part One: Longfellow House Tour
Students are invited to explore the home on a guided tour and examine the connections between Longfellow’s childhood, family life and city life in the mid-nineteenth century, and the poetry Longfellow created.
Part Two: Resurgam: The Endurance of Portland, Maine
Visit the Osher Map Library and investigate the destructions, resurrections, and transformations of Maine’s largest city in maps of Portland from the Revolutionary War to the beginning of the twentieth century. (more)
To schedule, please email Renee Keul at rkeul@usm.maine.edu or fill out a visit request form.
Group Size: 40 to 80 students (max of 40 students at each site)
Grades: 3 – 8
Price: $3 per student
Total Length: 2.5 hours (60 – 75 minutes at each site)
Available: May – October
Part One: Longfellow Trail
Discover the city that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow knew on this guided expedition through downtown Portland. Using maps and old photographs copied from the archives of the Maine Historical Society, and Longfellow’s poems about his native city, students will search for the buildings and streets that existed in the nineteenth–century city familiar to the poet. In the process students will learn about the Revolutionary War, life in the nineteenth century, the Great Fire of 1866, and the layers of the past that still exist in Portland’s changing urban landscape.
Part Two: Resurgam: The Endurance of Portland, Maine
Visit the Osher Map Library and investigate the destructions, resurrections, and transformations of Maine’s largest city in maps of Portland from the Revolutionary War to the beginning of the twentieth century. (more)
To schedule, please email Renee Keul at rkeul@usm.maine.edu or fill out a visit request form.
