Wayside Inn Show Guide 2010

8 as reflected in the manuscripts and objects related to the site’s history maintained in an environmentally controlled archive and storage area. Collections include papers related to the four generations of Howes, who operated the inn and tavern from 1716 to 1861, as well as more recent records kept by hostesses who remark on the everyday operation of the business during the second quarter of the 20th century. Longfellow’s Wayside Inn became a literary landmark after a visit by the Cambridge poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1862 and the publication of his acclaimed Tales of a Wayside Inn in 1863. The last Howe innkeeper, Lyman, was the inspiration for one of Longfellow’s most famous poems “The Landlord’s Tale,” more widely known as “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.”