2010 Longfellow Big Read

February 26, 2010 - May 31, 2010

For three months, book discussion groups, lectures, film screenings, and other special events will feature “Longfellow’s Great Heroes and Legends”—the stories of Paul Revere, Evangeline, Hiawatha, and Miles Standish. Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Sudbury Foundation, the goal of the programming is to promote the reading of great poetry as a worthy pastime for everyone in the community.

Metrowest organizations hosting Longfellow-related activities include the Goodnow Library in Sudbury, the Marlborough Library, the Marlborough Schools, the Sudbury Senior Center, Framingham Adult ESL, and Garden in the Woods.

Guest lecturers will come from the Maine Historical Society, the Maine Humanities Council, the John Alden House in Duxbury, MA, the Paul Revere House in Boston, and the Boston Wedgwood Society.

Visit the Longfellow Big Read website for more information. Follow the Big Read on Facebook (Longfellow Big Read) and Twitter (@readlongfellow).

Read the February 4 Sudbury Town Crier article about all the upcoming Big Read activities.

Read Longfellow resource materials developed by the National Endowment of the Arts.

Listen to the NEA Big Read's Longfellow Radio Show.