Johnny Tremain, Lafayette, and Boston’s Freedom Trail
Not seeing Johnny Tremain, I imagined him walking through the streets, looking for a job after he injured his hand, and running errands for the Sons of Liberty.
Historical Sewing and Time Travels
Category: Touring Massachusetts
Children’s Books beguile at Victorian Boston Public Garden
By choice, my students, wrote newadventures for Louis and Serena, the trumpeter swans…who find love in the Boston Public Garden among the swan boats!
Concord grapes intermingled with famed literary authors
Henry David Thoreau planted the Concord grape in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s garden, which today emanates a luscious fragrace from vines entwined about the trellis.
Fading away: The Manse, Walden Pond, and Transcendentalism
Too late in the day for our hoped for tours of The Manse and Walden Pond, we discoursed on the fading away of the esoteric transcendalism over dinner.
Louisa May Alcott, Concord Author at Orchard House
Then we visited Orchard House, where Louisa May Alcott’s wrote Little Women, inspired and based on the Alcott family adventures next door.
Meeting Nathaniel Hawthorne, Concord Author
As we approached the Wayside House, we saw a man in 19th century attire slowly strolling outside while reading a book. I soon learned he’s a bit elusive.
Johnny Tremain tour of Battles of Lexington and Concord
Through the eyes of Johnny Tremain, and Virginians Mann Page and Patrick Henry, touring the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
