Pop-up Bookshop at Whittier Birthplace Poetry Festival

We are honored to be invited to host a pop-up bookshop at the Whittier Birthplace Poetry Festival.  The festival, in this beautiful and historic setting, will feature an assortment of music and poetry from around New England and beyond.

About Whittier Birthplace:

In 1688, in a small pleasant valley under the shoulder of Job’s Hill, Thomas Whittier built the house which was to be the Whittier family home. The family lived there for five generations, and it was the Birthplace of the Quaker Poet and Abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier on December 17, 1807.

The Whittier Birthplace, located on its original site, is an outstanding example of an old New England farm. It is substantially the same as when the Poet lived there from 1807 to 1836. The Birthplace is the setting of his most famous and beloved poem Snow-Bound. Many settings from his poems are recognizable to those who have read them.

The Birthplace was formally opened in 1893 after former-Mayor James H. Carleton purchased the house and land and presented it to the Haverhill Whittier Club. The club established a Board of Trustees which to this day holds the deed in trust, with the intent and obligation that the house and grounds be maintained for visitors that the love and memory of Whittier might forever be cherished.