MARY PARSONS, at right, helps install a stone marker and plant a tree at the new Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School in Brunswick.

MARY PARSONS, at right, helps install a stone marker and plant a tree at the new Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School in Brunswick.

BRUNSWICK

In line with tradition, Brunswick’s former Longfellow School now has a living memorial at the new Harriet Beecher Stowe School.

Mary Parsons, an advocate for keeping alive memories of the Longfellow School and a member of the Brunswick Area Student Aid Fund, said she received permission to plant a tree at the new elementary school with a cobblestone marker indicating the Longfellow School’s life span from 1924 to 2011.

 

 

The tree follows a tradition that started at Brunswick High School, which was built in 1994, Parsons said.

“At the time the high school was built, four trees were planted there for each of the four elementary schools,” Parsons said.

The Longfellow School building is likely destined for Bowdoin College after the Brunswick Town Council approved an agreement to exchange that property for the college’s downtown McLellan Building by 2014.

Parsons also said that a new Longfellow Scholarship Fund has been established through the Brunswick Area Student Aid Fund. Donations to that fund can be sent to BASAF, care of J. Otey Smith, 121 Tondreau Point Road, Harpswell, ME 04079.


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