Comments | prog: I have never seen a town more obsessed with a poet

prog

I have never seen a town more obsessed with a poet

Oct 17, 2007 20:57

Back home. Thanks to xach and jaq (har har sounds like a chewy candy product) for suggestions of stuff to do in Portland. We did indeed eat at the Sebago brewpub, and tromped around the enormous cemetery. The weather was fine. Pictures later, maybe, as well as the Central Maine report ( Read more... )

beer, maine, travel

Comments 4

doctor_atomic October 18 2007, 01:02:34 UTC

Where does the poet come in?

prog October 18 2007, 01:19:16 UTC

There's a giant statue of Longfellow in the center of town, and a bust of Longfellow in the Shipyard's screening room (as well as an ale named for him), and shops selling Longfellow merch all over, and on and on.

ruthling October 18 2007, 01:19:41 UTC

I love brewery tours! Food factory tours, too.

Famous anonymous October 18 2007, 13:29:24 UTC

Yeah, but Longfellow was the most famous pop star of his time. That's why they were so obsessed with him. They just didn't have MTV to plaster his face everywhere with, so they went with stone :)

Mary
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