Word: alcotts
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...Concord Museum, a natural first stop, provides a cram course in transcendentalism--the belief that the beauty of the natural world is a manifestation of divinity--as well as exhibits about transcendentalist writers Emerson, Thoreau and Bronson Alcott. They were all friends and neighbors, and the galleries reflect their coziness. A room replicating Emerson's study contains his circular writing table and books often borrowed by Louisa May Alcott. Next door is the Thoreau gallery, with the desk, bed and chair from that famous rustic cabin Thoreau built on Emerson's land at Walden Pond, as well as Thoreau...
Also on the list are Hildegarde of Bingen, Teresa of Avila, Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, Joan of Arc, Abigail Adams, Emily Bronte, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Hannah Arendt, Sarah Caldwell, Martha Graham and Toni Morrison...
...hill. But the religious fervor is not only limited to a renewed commitment to church-going. The religious ethos of Boston can be best felt outdoors. At Walden Pond, surrounded by basic natural elements--trees and water--you can imagine the epiphanies of Thoreau. Orchard House, home to Alcott family, Emerson House and The Fruitlands in Harvard, Mass., the religious communal farm of these New England thinkers and other transcendentalists, represent a quasi meeting of the minds, a convergence of the intellectual and the spiritual. The town of Salem and its gruesome but fascinating legacy of witches and trials conveys...
...movies from Nights of Cabiria to Natural Born Killers restore lost scenes; boxed sets of just about any recording artist you can think of--Why not the Zombies?--disgorge hours of studio outtakes. These have also been boom times for posthumous publication, with recent "new" work by Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Mitchell; next year Ernest Hemingway will give us his fourth book as a dead person. Publisher Charles Scribner 3rd says Hemingway fully intended these manuscripts to see the light of day, but cautions other authors that if they don't want work published, they had best destroy...
...complete works of Louisa May Alcott...