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...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's walking stick, notched in inches so that he could take accurate measure of all he observed during his frequent...
...Lexington Road is the rambling, dormered, brown-frame Orchard House, where in 1868 Louisa May Alcott wrote her masterpiece, Little Women, about four lively sisters, based on her real-life family. Visitors can still see the angels May Alcott ("Amy" in the book) sketched in her own room and the calla lilies she painted in the room where Louisa ("Jo") slept...
Next door is the Wayside, where the Alcott sisters engaged in the childhood adventures Louisa recalled later in Little Women. In real life it was inhabited by a succession of local celebrities--the Alcotts (1845-48), before they moved to Orchard House; Nathaniel Hawthorne (1852-53 and 1860-64), who gave the house its current name and added the Italianate tower topped with a "sky-parlour"; and Harriett Lothrop (1883-1924), who under the pen name Margaret Sidney wrote the classic Five Little Peppers books...
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...
Grolier's owner, Louisa Solano, spends her dayswavering between making it clear to would-bethieves that they are under surveillance andkeeping her loyal customers from feeling shedistrusts them...