Stowe actually wrote Uncle Tom;s Cabin while living and raising six children in Maine with her very supportive husband. She was already world famous by the time she moved into this house. This is the family's private parlor.
The story of Stowe's life and family was quite interesting. Our young guide, Ryan, was very informative. I bought a biography of Harriot's brother, Henry Ward Beacher, who was a famous minister in his day.
On our way home we stopped in Hartford, Connecticut. This is Mark Twain's home there, where he wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. We didn't tour the house, but we did do the tour next door of Harriot Beacher Stowe's Connecticut home, where she lived from 1874 until her death in 1896.
