BRUNSWICK ? Officials this summer plan to install a set of four plaques on downtown sidewalks honoring famous writers who lived in town.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Robert Peter Tristram Coffin all resided in Brunswick at some point in their lives.

The Maine Street plaques, due in July, will bear quotations from the authors. Sponsors of the Brunswick Literary Art Walk hope to promote pedestrian enjoyment through this program.

?Some people wished the quotations conveyed a sense of place of Brunswick, but we felt we could have looked in vain for that,? said Phyllis Fuchs, a former children?s librarian in Brunswick, who, with former Bowdoin College President A. LeRoy Greason, selected quotes from each writer.

?Instead, we looked for quotes that might make someone glad they spent a moment or two to stop and look at it,? she said.

Born in Portland in 1807, Longfellow entered Bowdoin College at the age of 14. Hawthorne was graduated from Bowdoin in 1825.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was born in 1811, wrote ?Uncle Tom?s Cabin? in 1852 while living in Brunswick.

Coffin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who died in 1955, was born and educated in Brunswick, and also attended Bowdoin.

The executive director of the Bowdoin International Music Festival, Peter Simmons, said the idea grew out of discussions several years ago with Theo Holtwijk, the town?s director of planning and development, about ways to incorporate the public into a downtown improvement project.

?We wanted to do something that would give people a better sense of place, but we really didn?t want to add more things to the sidewalks,? Simmons said.

Gregg LeFevre, the owner of LeFevre Studios of New York City who was contracted to cast the four bronze plaques, said the Brunswick project is similar to his Library Walk project in New York. The typography on the plaques was designed by seven Bowdoin College students.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was born in 1811, wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” in 1852 while living in Brunswick.

Coffin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who died in 1955, was born and educated in Brunswick, and also attended Bowdoin.

The executive director of the Bowdoin International Music Festival, Peter Simmons, said the idea grew out of discussions several years ago with Theo Holtwijk, the town’s director of planning and development, about ways to incorporate the public into a downtown improvement project.

“We wanted to do something that would give people a better sense of place, but we really didn’t want to add more things to the sidewalks,” Simmons said.

Gregg LeFevre, the owner of LeFevre Studios of New York City who was contracted to cast the four bronze plaques, said the Brunswick project is similar to his Library Walk project in New York.

The typography on the plaques was designed by seven Bowdoin College students.