Word: pond
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...neighborhood residents began to plant beds of flowers. Over time they added gravel walkways, benches and even a small pond...
...Lebow, a joint English and Sociology concentrator, is one of 35 Harvard students involved in Partners for Empowering Neighborhoods (PEN). This Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) program offers free adult education classes in English as a second language (ESL), computers, math and reading/writing to residents of the Fresh Pond Housing Development in Cambridge and the Bromley Heath neighborhood in Jamaica Plain...
Topic of the day: household chores. Ho do you explain "ironing" to a group of newly immigrated adults, ages 22-65, who have arrived at the Fresh Pond projects from China, Honduras, Columbia and Haiti...
...cabin Thoreau built in 1845 and lived in for two years on Walden Pond, south of town, was sold during his lifetime and disassembled to patch a barn and roof a pig sty. But the site is marked by a cairn of rocks, started by Bronson Alcott after Thoreau died in 1862 and supplemented over the years by reverent visitors. Nearby, a facsimile of Thoreau's tiny, spartan home reflects his belief that freedom lay in simplicity. "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself," he wrote, "than be crowded on a velvet cushion...
...houses of Concord reveal a lot about the men and women who made the town famous, but it is the great outdoors that provided much of their inspiration. Visitors should plan to spend an afternoon swimming in the clear, spring-fed water of Walden Pond, searching for frogs along its fringe and exploring the 1 3/4-mile trail that encircles it. Another day, families may want to pack a picnic, rent a canoe at South Bridge and paddle the Sudbury and Concord rivers to North Bridge, tinderbox of the American Revolution and the setting of Emerson's Concord Hymn, which celebrated...