Our "adventure" today took us to the town of Concord, Mass., a small peaceful and prosperous town that was at the heart of two important chapters in US history. The first was the Battle of Concord on April 19, 1775, which signaled the beginning of the Revolutionary War, and the second as 19th century Concord became the literary heart and soul of the US with many of the nation's great writers establishing homes there. We tried, without success, to "see it all" starting with the Minute Man National Park http://www.nps.gov/mima/index.htm. We got pictures of a number of houses but were not able to tour or get pictures inside either because they were closed on Monday-Tuesday, or because photos were not allowed. Some of the places we did see were Monument Square, the center of the battle; the North Bridge, where the "shot heard 'round the world" set off the war; the Old Manse, which was built by the grandfather of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who lived there briefly and where Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife rented the first 3 years of their marriage (loving inscriptions are scratched into the windows by her diamond ring...we were the only ones on the 4:00 tour and the tour guide was kind enough to let us take pictures of the windows and the Steinway piano...nothing else); the Emerson House, where Ralph Waldo Emerson lived from 1835 until his death in 1882; The Wayside, home of Hawthorne, the Alcotts, and Margaret Sidney; Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House, Home of Little Women; Authors Ridge at Sleepy Hollow Cemetary, http://www.concordma.gov/pages/concordma_cemetery/sleepy where Hawthorne, Thoreau, Emerson, Alcott, among others are buried; Walden Pond, where Henry David Thoreau lived in relative isolation from July 1845 to Sept. 1847 and compiled the material for Walden; or, Life in the Woods; and the Concord Museum, where we "lucked out" and got to see Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage on exhibit http://concordmuseum.org/pilgrimage.html. The Concord Museum is the first stop on a national tour of this exhibition of photographs that were taken "simply because she was moved by the subject" unlike her "staged and carefully lit photographs for magazines and advertising clients".
As you can see, it was a full day and one I know I have not completely covered. Which means...I'm going to attach the links to the photos again!
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