“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.” ...

Growing up I loved the poem by Longfellow, "The Village Blacksmith." I recall the lines, "Under the spreading chestnut tree, the village smithy stands. The smith a mighty man was he, with large and ...

"Under a spreading chestnut tree, the village smithy stands" --the opening words of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Village Blacksmith"-- is a line of poetry familiar to a lot of Americans. These ...

“Under a spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands…” and so begins the famous poem “The Village Blacksmith” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Written in 1842, Longfellow was already imparting a ...