as he wrote the words to a poem that has become known as “I heard the bells on Christmas Day.” It was 1863. The Civil War was raging. Longfellow had lost his wife in a fiery accident and his ...

I HEARD THE BELLS tells the inspiring true story behind the beloved Christmas carol and its author, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Known as America’s Poet, Henry leads an idyllic life – until the ...

The following year, 1861, America will need that music to counter the drum and bugle of civil war. Rising ... In those bells the message is clear: On Christmas day a Child was born in a stable.