July 28, 2024 – Dead Writers Podcast – Featured Hawthorne on Maine Public Radio
Dead Writers takes listeners inside famous American authors’ homes. Riffing on literature, history, home décor, gardens, and ghosts, literary critic Tess Chakkalakal and novelist Brock Clarke, bring great American writers, and the books they wrote, back from the dead. The July 28th episode will be all about Nathaniel Hawthorne, his family’s house and his boyhood along the shores of Sebago Lake and Thomas Pond.
Tess Chakkalakal is the creator, executive producer and host of Dead Writers. Brock Clarke is the co-host and writer. Tess was the guest speaker at the Hawthorne House’s 2024 Strawberry Festival. See the Strawberry Festival wrap-up post.
Please tune into Maine Public Radio on Sunday, July 28th at 8:00 pm. Or, easy enough, you can listen right here. Scroll down to Making Friends at the Nathaniel Hawthorne House.
The Times Record (of Portland Herald Press) – June 28, 2024 Hawthorne’s Mischief at Bowdoin!
Here is a link to the podcast recording.
Maine Calling on Maine Public Radio – Hawthorne’s boyhood experiences in Raymond and his legacy in Maine – May 2, 2023
We are excited that Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Boyhood Home was featured on Maine Calling on Maine Public Radio . Maine Calling is a live, call-in radio program offering enlightening and engaging conversations on a wide range of topics hosted by Jennifer Rooks, Keith Shortall, and Cindy Han.
The program ran on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. In case you missed it, you can click on the link below and listen to the show in it’s entirety.
Portland Press Herald – Barbecue to benefit Hawthorne house repairs – August, 2022
https://www.pressherald.com/2022/08/03/barbecue-to-benefit-hawthorne-house-repairs/
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Town Line – Nathaniel Hawthorne’s boyhood home launches phase 2 of fundraising campaign – August, 2022
https://townline.org/nathaniel-hawthornes-boyhood-home-launches-phase-2-of-fundraising-campaign/
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The Bridgton News -Hawthorne House fundraising campaign launches Phase 2 – July 28, 2022.
http://www.bridgton.com/hawthorne-house-fundraising-campaign-launches-phase-2/
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WGME-Channel 13 – Fundraising efforts continue to repair Nathaniel Hawthorne’s historic boyhood home – July, 2022.
Click here for a PDF version of WGME-Channel 13 transcript – Fundraising efforts continue to repair Nathaniel Hawthorne’s historic boyhood home – July, 2022.
The Lewiston Sun Journal – Raymond strawberry fest to be held at Hawthorne’s childhood home – June, 2022
The Windham Eagle – Spotlight on Business – Hawthorne House – April, 2022
Please read the Windham Eagle Business Spotlight about the Hawthorne House. Excellent profile and thank you Windham Eagle!
Please click HERE to read the profile
Channel 8 WMTW- Portland – Group needs $15K to save Maine childhood home of Nathaniel Hawthorne – July 28, 2021.
Maine News Center January, 2021 – Hawthorne House in Raymond is in need of repairs
Channel 8 WMTW – – Portland – September, 2020 Group working to save Maine childhood home of Nathaniel Hawthorne
The boyhood home of Nathaniel Hawthorne located in Raymond on Hawthorne Roadentertained a special guest on Monday morning August 27, 2018. A professor of Americanliterature from a college in Japan traveled to Raymond, Maine to visit Hawthorne’shome as part of his dissertation research which focuses on the author’s life as a child. [Read More…]
Portland Press Herald – June, 2012 – Celebrating Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Raymond chapter –
Behind the frozen-in-time boyhood home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the Maine Historical Society in Portland has a single file on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s life on Sebago Lake.
The literary giants were classmates at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, where the college library bears both of their names. But compared with Longfellow’s well-documented childhood in Maine, little is known about the time Hawthorne spent in the house on Cape Road in Raymond that was built,,,[Read More…]