Chapel Service

Themes of love inspire music, song and readings in a service led by Rev. Brad Mitchell with organist, Grace Lewis McLaren, The Longfellows, and the Merrymeeting Singers performing Snow-Flakes, a Longfellow poem to music composed by Charles Kaufmann. The piece premiered in Portland with the Longfellow Chorus in 2007 and won second prize in 2008 at the Ithaca College Composition Contest. Offering will benefit the reconstruction of the Unitarian Universalist Church at Pleasant and Middle Streets that burned down in summer 2011. The Church houses a bible which was a gift from Longfellow. Longfellow Days is a program of the Brunswick Downtown Association & Bowdoin College with support from the Nathaniel Davis Fund of Brunswick, the Senter Fund, Maine Humanities Council: Power & Pleasure of Poetry, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, and the Association of Bowdoin Friends. Longfellow Days receives in-kind support from Art Forms/Cool as a Moose, Brunswick Inn, the Inn at Brunswick Station, Bohemian Coffee House, and Curtis Memorial Library.