BRUNSWICK — The annual chapel service for Longfellow Days will be held on Sunday at 10 a.m. in Bowdoin Chapel.
The theme of this year’s Longfellow Days has focused around the transatlantic friendship between Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Charles Dickens. Letters and historical documents reveal that the two men visited one another and corresponded, influencing their thinking and writing. Their major works inspire thoughts of social justice as well as friendship, making their work read and celebrated around the world.
The Rev. Sylvia Stocker, a local Unitarian Universalist minister, will officiate with Lincoln’s famous second inaugural phrase, “With Malice Toward None,” as her theme.
Grace Lewis-McLaren will perform significant organ compositions created during Longfellow’s lifetime: Chorale in E-Major by Cesar Franck and Sonata III: Con moto maestoso by Felix Mendelssohn. Lewis-McLaren will begin playing Franck’s work as Prelude at 9:50 a.m.
The Merrymeeting Singers and the congregation will sing hymns by both Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and his brother, Samuel.
Offertory donations will be divided between the rebuilding fund for the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick and Keep ME Warm.
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