STEP UP STEP UP Part 2 Concord TOUR LEAVING NOW

Well to continue on our tour of Concord,Concord also had some

other pretty big happenings going here of the literary type.....Now this is PL1's area of expertise so we are going to use him to help give us some information that we and ahem PL2 might not be up on......

This is a very pretty and famous house.......

Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Bush House" which has NOTHING to do with either George! It seems people back then used to give their houses names, and I'm thinking how nice it would be to come home to "Agatha House"!!

This is the only house that Nathaniel Hawthorne ever owned. He named it "The Wayside" and the tower between the two chimnies was where he did his writing while standing up! I don't know where he kept his stuffies!

The Alcotts' "Orchard House," where Louisa Mae Alcott grew up. Inside, the drawings that she and her sisters did on their bedroom walls are still there! Archie wants to know if we can get some Magic Markers before we go home....

Then we went to Concerd's famous "Sleepy Hollow Cemetery," where Archie fainted, but that's not why it is famous! Many of the great American authors from the 19th century are buried on "Authors' Ridge."(Look at his face in this picture........)

Here is the grave of Henry David Thoreau, who wrote Walden, one of PL1's favorite books! People leave little remembrances at his grave including a flute, because Thoreau used to play a flute, and Archie thought he would give it a try!

Here is the grave of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who wrote The Scarlet Letter, which is one of PL1's favorite books! I was kind of sad to learn that Hawthorne's wife, Sophia, is buried in England, not here!

The big rock marks the grave of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote Nature, one of PL1's favorite books!

Louisa Mae Alcott wrote Little Women, one of PL2's favorite books!

I was afraid he was going to keep fainting so I thought I would try to keep him occupied.....I found this cool tree trunk....

"ARCHIE come and check this out..."

HA HA I kind of stuffed him in there alittle.....

And this is a MOVING(from the car) picture of the famous Walden Pond....Why is it moving you might ask..BECAUSE NO DOGS ALLOWED.....Hmmmph what would Thoreau say to that one I ask.......




So we stayed in the air conditioned car with PL2 while PL1 went to the Walden Pond Bookstore and the three of us played throw the blueberry in the air and try to catch it...We started out with rasberries but that got a little messy.....

I am a little tired from all the activities and I think I am going to curl up with Little Woman and Archie is going to try to read Little Men....if he can pull himself away from his latest cooking adventure...fried eggs on the sidewalk a la Arch....