Students visited the Longfellow House in Portland. From left in front are Maggie Staples, Tiana Menders, Toshona Bunnell, Jesse Ayotte, Stephen Corning, David McCaul and Caylie Anderson; back, Paige Emerson, Kate Garneau, Josh White, Taylor Edwards and Holly Corning, teacher.

Academy students visit Longfellow’s

PARIS – As part of its “Up, Up and Away” Friday field trips series, the Oxford Hills Christian Academy Middle School recently visited the Longfellow House in Portland.

The group toured the historic boyhood home of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on the 200th anniversary of his birth.

Students also participated in a program titled, “Poetry and Place,” in which they were encouraged to write original poetry about places in their own lives that have been important to them.

The middle school campus is located at 1 Park St., South Paris. For more information, call the main office at 743-5970.