A few photos from last Monday – this was
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J and I took the kids canoeing yesterday - something we’d talked about doing since we moved to this area three years ago. It’s fun to be a tourist in your own town, and to enjoy things that other people travel distances to do. We had two canoes – the boys in one, girls in the other [...] When out-of-town friends come to visit for the first time, one of the places on the “must see” list is Orchard House. This is where Louisa May Alcott’s family lived for about 20 years in the mid- to late-1800s. Her father, Amos Bronson Alcott, named the house for the 12 acres of apple orchards on their [...] An article in today’s Boston Globe, titled Shelf Life, expounds on the treasure trove of artifacts to be found in local libraries. Aside from the possibility of rare books and historic documents, many libraries house other significant items in their special collections. Our local library, the Concord Free Public Library, sits on the site of the [...] The sun finally came out today, after two full days of cold rainy weather; with temps expected to reach 90 this afternoon, crowds came out early to beat the heat at the Friends of the Library Book Sale. There were over 20,000 books, with a silent auction of collectible books beginning at 8:30, followed by a [...] I live in Concord, Mass., a town about 20 miles west of Boston. Rich in revolutionary and literary history, it has been home to Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Alcott family. The quote “She is too fond of books and it has addled her brain” is from Work: A Story of [...] |
 
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