This home was located on Wallis Lane in Beverly, Massachusetts - where the Larcom Theatre is located today. This is where Lucy Larcom was born and lived throughout the early years of her life before having to move to Lowell and work as a mill girl. Her books are filled with such wonderful memories of ...
Goldenrod is one of my favorite flowers. It is always a pleasure to discover that one of Lucy Larcom's favorite things is my own as well. I look forward to seeing the goldenrod bloom every year. We don't have much of an Autumn in Florida, but we do get a beautiful display of goldenrod in the ...
by Lucy Larcom, The Poetical Works of Lucy Larcom (1884) THE flowers from the earth have arisen, They are singing their Easter-song; Up the valleys and over hillsides They come, an unnumbered throng. Oh, listen! The wild-flowers are singing Their beautiful songs without words! They are pouring the soul of their music Through the voices of happy birds. Every flower to a bird has confided The ...
Two Festivals By Lucy Larcom Written for the Boston Traveller, Christmas, 1881. Published in The Poetical Works of Lucy Larcom. Thanksgiving stirs her ruddy fire; The glow illuminates November: She sees new glimmerings of desire Flash up from every fading ember. The corn is stored, and heaped the board; The matron Day, her comforts summing, Hears, through her best, a better word, – The merry shout ...
This place is on my bucket list, which I am sure will be an easy one to check-off as I am already dreaming up a nice drive North to see these majestic mountains. The way Lucy Larcom describes them makes me feel at home (especially because my own branch of the Larcom family also spends ...
EASTER'S DAWN by Lucy Larcom, The Poetical Works of Lucy Larcom Breaks the joyful Easter dawn, Clearer yet, and stronger; Winter from the world has gone, Death shall be no longer! Far away good angels drive Night and sin and sadness; Earth awakes in smiles, alive, With her dear Lord's gladness. Roused by Him from dreary hours, Under snow-drifts chilly, In His hand He brings the flowers, Brings the ...
MassMoments reminds us that writer Lucy Larcom – my first cousin five times removed – died on this day April 17, 1893. ...in 1893, Lucy Larcom died. A popular poet during her lifetime, she would be forgotten today except for a work of prose that she wrote in 1889. Her autobiography, A New England Girlhood, tells the story of her ...
My name is Jen Larcom. I am a third-generation native Floridian, a wife, a mom, a graphic designer by trade, and I love to dive into genealogy when I can. I am a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution - Rufus Fairbanks Satellite Beach Chapter, and the New England Historic Genealogical Society. I have been researching my maiden surname 'Larcom' for about 15 years now.
This website is my personal family tree with emphasis on the Larcom surname, but also includes information on other surnames like Bartlett, Wyatt, Andrews, Haskell, Balch, Ober, Standley, and Abbot. Larcomfamilytree.com has been online since 2006, and I have been fortunate enough to meet Larcoms from all around the world!