Today (Saturday) we visited the town of Concord, Massachusetts
and the grounds of the home of Ralph Waldo Emerson
and Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Old North Bridge.
A warm summer day full of atmosphere and a sense of history,
calm and nature as we wandered through the garden
and along the Concord River and across the Old North Bridge.
and the grounds of the home of Ralph Waldo Emerson
and Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Old North Bridge.
A warm summer day full of atmosphere and a sense of history,
calm and nature as we wandered through the garden
and along the Concord River and across the Old North Bridge.
The Old Manse
(when I got home I found my old drawing bookin which I had drawn the Old Manse in 1975!)
Vegetable garden at the Old Manse"A recreation of Henry David Thoreau's vegetable garden,
planted in 1842 as a wedding gift to the Hawthornes,
still flourishes in the same location."
This little rabbit was munching outside the garden.
Old North Bridge, Concord, Massachusetts
Over at the Alcott's Orchard House we discovered the birthday
of May Alcott had just been celebrated at the homestead.
We missed the celebration but enjoyed visiting
the outside grounds of her home.
"Orchard House was the Alcott family'smost permanent home (from 1858 to 1877)"
(also the setting for Louisa May Alcott's
"Little Women")
The Alcott Schoolhouse
