Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Village Blacksmith on a Blackboard

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Village Blacksmith on a Blackboard

When the new schoolhouse was built, the old building was sold to George Harmon and it was used for stores and apartments.

Many years later the owners of the Harmon Block found, in one of the rooms, an old blackboard from when their building had been a school. On the blackboard was still part of the poem, "The Village Blacksmith" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and some doodling on it, remnants of a lesson from circa 1906! This date refers to the time the blackboard was last used.

The board shows the 4th stanza of the poem:

"And children coming home from school
Look in at the open door;
They love to see the flaming forge,
And hear the bellows roar,
And catch the burning sparks that fly
Like chaff from a threshing floor."

(From "The Village Blacksmith" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from "Ballads and Other Poems" published in 1841)

Southwest Harbor

ME

USA

1906 c.