The Children's Longfellow

excerpt from the book..The home of the American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, during thegreater part of his life was in the picturesque town of Cambridge,Massachusetts, and there many of his best known poems were written.The forge of the Village Blacksmith really stood there beneath theshelter of a "spreading chestnut tree," in Cambridge, and when, as thetown grew larger, the smithy was removed and the tree cut down, all theschool children in Cambridge subscribed together to buy the wood of