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...19th century heroine she has just played; between Winona Ryder and Jo March there are some spooky parallels. Both are bookworms and avid letter writers. Both grew up in a close family that lived in a house with no electricity or running water. The Marches of Concord, Massachusetts, were transcendentalists; the Horowitzes of Petaluma were part of an agreeable commune. Winona (named for the Minnesota town in which she was born) had Timothy Leary as her godfather. Her father is an archivist of counterculture magazines and books and runs a small publishing company...
With the growth of grass-roots deficit-reduction organizations like the Concord Coalition and Lead or Leave, citizens are learning more about entitlements and tax subsidies for the comfortable class. Some examples...
...children's classic can be described as a book so inviting that a young reader wants to escape into the world it creates. By that definition, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, an account of four sisters living in Concord, Massachusetts, during the 1860s, is immortal. The author drew on her own impoverished childhood as a daughter of Bronson Alcott, a feckless member of the Concord enlightenment. Generations of girls have yearned to join the March household, and they remember the story's high points better than crises of their own lives...
...film, Columbia has made sure there will be new editions of the some 40 that are in print now -- as well as character dolls of the Concord girls, period clothing from Lanz, antique-style jewelry at J.C. Penney and baskets of scented products from Crabtree & Evelyn. The Alcotts would be in awe of every item. They had few possessions, and their diet consisted mostly of the "aspiring" vegetables -- grown aboveground -- that papa Bronson approved...
Armstrong and Swicord have made the girls' mother (Susan Sarandon) something more of a feminist exemplar than she originally was; still, her social activism and her insistence that her children must claim their freedom do not seem anachronistic for a Concord woman of her time and class...