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The John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead is the birthplace and home of American Quaker poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier. It currently serves as a museum. The homestead is located at 305 Whittier Road in Haverhill, Massachusetts. ==History== The home was built in 1688 by Thomas Whittier, pioneer and great-great-grandfather of John Greenleaf Whittier.〔Woodwell, Roland H. ''John Greenleaf Whittier: A Biography''. Haverhill, Massachusetts: Trustees of the John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead, 1985: 1〕 Thomas Whittier chose the site (originally 148 acres) for its proximity to Fernside Brook, which could both provide water and turn the wheel of a gristmill. The future poet John Greenleaf Whittier was born in December 1807〔Blue, Frederick J. ''No Taint of Compromise: Crusaders in Antislavery Politics''. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005: 37. ISBN 0-8071-2976-3〕 in the southwest parlor of the farm house, which today remains essentially the same as it was in that year. Growing up, Whittier lived the hard-working life of a farm boy. Amid strenuous labor, he suffered chronic headaches and fatigue and attended Quaker meetings or school infrequently.〔 He also learned he was color-blind when he was unable to differentiate between ripe and unripe strawberries.〔Wagenknecht, Edward. ''John Greenleaf Whittier: A Portrait in Paradox''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967: 18〕 Here, he developed his love of reading thanks to a modest family library which included the poetry of Robert Burns.〔 It was Whittier's sister Elizabeth and his mother Abigail who particularly encouraged his literary interests as a boy. His father John, on the other hand, was more economy-minded and insisted that his son's farm duties were more important than education or writing.〔Blue, Frederick J. ''No Taint of Compromise: Crusaders in Antislavery Politics''. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005: 38–39. ISBN 0-8071-2976-3〕 Whittier's first poem, "The Exile's Departure", was published by the Newburyport ''Free Press'' on June 18, 1826, by editor William Lloyd Garrison.〔Wagenknecht, Edward. ''John Greenleaf Whittier: A Portrait in Paradox''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967: 5〕 Garrison helped young Whittier attend Haverhill Academy, tuition for which was paid with food grown at the family farm.〔Woodwell, Roland H. ''John Greenleaf Whittier: A Biography''. Haverhill, Massachusetts: Trustees of the John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead, 1985: 12〕 For a brief period, he was editor of the ''Haverhill Gazette''.〔Blue, Frederick J. ''No Taint of Compromise: Crusaders in Antislavery Politics''. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005: 40. ISBN 0-8071-2976-3〕 Whittier lived in the home for 29 years. He moved to Amesbury, Massachusetts in 1836〔Danilov, Victor J. ''Famous Americans: A Directory of Museums, Historic Sites, and Memorials''. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013: 202. ISBN 978-0-8108-9185-2〕 and sold the family farm. The home he moved to, the John Greenleaf Whittier House, is also open to the public. The homestead is the setting for Whittier's best-known narrative poem ''Snow-Bound'',〔Corbett, William. ''Literary New England: A History and Guide''. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1993: 126. ISBN 0-571-19816-3〕 published in 1866 and an instant bestseller. Whittier also set many of his other poems in the Haverhill area, including "Fernside Brook", "The Barefoot Boy", and "The Sycamores".〔Ehrlich, Eugene and Gorton Carruth. ''The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to the United States''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982: 48. ISBN 0-19-503186-5〕 The popularity of ''Snow-Bound'' also made the home popular; revived interest in nostalgic kitchens spurred by the poem inspired fans to try to emulate Whittier's kitchen. The poet noted in 1881 that a Cleveland, Ohio resident asked for exact measurements of his Haverhill kitchen in order to recreate Whittier's childhood hearth. "I certainly never dreamed when writing 'Snow-Bound' ... that it could be worthy of a counterfeit presentation", he wrote.〔Sorby, Angela. ''Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry, 1865–1917''. Durham, NH: University of New Hampshire Press, 2005: 39. ISBN 1-58465-458-9〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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