Saturday we trekked out to Concord to see some of the sights. First up: the Louisa May Alcott house, where she and her sisters grew up and where she wrote Little Women. The tour took us through the house where Amy (May Alcott) sketched on the walls and tables and painted the hearths; where Meg (Elizabeth Alcott) was married to John Pratt and Emerson was a guest at the wedding; where Jo (Louisa May Alcott) made props for their Monday night plays. It was a magical house where it did seem like life was a storybook (albeit not a fairytale). It's amazing to think that (almost) everything you read about in the novel actually happened right here.
We then went to the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery where many many famous authors are buried. There's Henry David Thoreau
and Louisa May Alcott (and her sisters and parents)
and Ralph Waldo Emerson
and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Plus the sculptor who did the Lincoln memorial. It was a beautiful cemetery and a beeee-utiful day. 50 degrees!
