Henry II (born 1133, Le Mans, Maine [now in France]—died July 6, 1189, near Tours) was the duke of Normandy (from 1150), count of Anjou (from 1151), duke of Aquitaine (from 1152), and king of England (from 1154), who greatly expanded his Anglo-French domains and strengthened ...
including St. Joseph’s Church in Greenwich Village, Grace Church, The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, St. Luke in the Fields, and St. Ignatius of Antioch. She has also performed with Early Music New York, Parthenia, and the New York Choral Artists. She ...
The “lightning bolt” moment was during theSymphony No. 3 in C Minor, opus 78, of Camille Saint-Saëns. I was principal flutist of thePortland (Maine) Youth Symphony Orchestra, playing at the heart of the ensemble while my then organ teacher, Ray Cornils, played the Ko...
Maine: Wadsworth-Longfellow House The colonial home of the author and poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was built in Portland, Maine, by Longfellow's grandfather, an officer in the Revolutionary War, in the mid-1700s. Longfellow grew up in the house and wrote his poem "The Rainy Day" in a ...