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The Whittier Home Museum and Tapestry of Voices invite you to its 20th annual collaborative readings from the poetry of John Greenleaf Whittier on Sunday, August 12 from 3-5:00 p.m. The poetry readings will take place in the Victorian garden of the Whittier Home Museum, 86 Friend Street, Amesbury.

2018 is the 350th anniversary of Amesbury, MA and this year’s readings will be devoted to Whittier’s poetry about its vast cultural heritage. From 1836 until his death in 1892, John Greenleaf Whittier lived and wrote most of his poetry and prose in his Amesbury, MA home. Samuel Francis Smith, author, minister and friend wrote, “Mr. Whittier admired nature as he saw in it the landscapes which surrounded his several homes, the rolling green hills of Haverhill and Bradford, the mighty trees of Oak Knoll, the flowing stream and graceful curves of the Merrimack; the sober and quiet graces of Amesbury; and with his pen he stamped upon them immortality.”