Thanks to Leslie Bridgers for her March 3 column about Harriet Beecher Stowe and her famous book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” However, the statement that Mrs. Stowe’s vision of the death of Uncle Tom occurred at the First Baptist Church was incorrect. The Stowes attended First Parish Church, which was a Congregational church at that time, and today is part of the United Church of Christ.
Visit with us any Sunday at 10 a.m. and sit in Pew 23, where Harriet experienced her vision during a communion service on March 2, 1851.
Elizabeth Newman
historian/archivist, First Parish Church
Brunswick
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