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Donna Urbikas My Sister's Mother by Donna Urbikas

My Sister’s Mother by Donna Urbikas

July 27, 2016December 9, 2018

The following is a guest post by Donna Urbikas, author of My Sister’s Mother: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Stalin’s Siberia. A couple of years ago I took myself on a cross-country tour of writers’ conferences where I could pitch my newly finished manuscript, My Sister’s Mother:  A Memoir of War, Exile, and Stalin’s Siberia.  Reception was great except that I am not famous, so who would care?  Fortunately, the…

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Henry Wadsworth-Longfellow Front of the house

Henry Wadsworth-Longfellow’s House

September 10, 2015December 9, 2018

A few months ago, I was on vacation in Portland, Maine, and decided to visit Henry Wadsworth-Longfellow’s childhood home where he lived until he was 14 years old. Built in 1785 by the poet’s grandfather, Peleg Wadsworth, it is a neoclassical-style building and the oldest standing structure on the Portland peninsula. Anne Longfellow Pierce, the poet’s younger sister lived in the house until her death in 1901, and left it…

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