Mountain View College students have enjoyed meeting new friends and discovering important and often moving sites important to both American history and literature.

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Day 1
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

JFK Library Boston, Mass	Mural of John and Robert Kennedy JFK Library and Museum	Section of the Berlin Wall JFK Library and Museum

Day 2
Walden Pond, Concord, Lexington, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

Walden Pond Concord, Mass	Dr. Ken Alfers with Thoreau's Statue	Group with Thoreau's Statue	Henry David Thoreau	Steve Carlin, Guide Thoreau's Cabin
Bryan and Dr. Alfers at Thoreau's Cabin Site	The 2003 Group at Thoreau's Cabin Site	Thoreau's Cabin Site	Thoreau's Grave Concord, Mass	Brick from Thoreau's Cabin
Dedicated stone at the Thoreau Rock Cairn	Susan writes on her stone	Carmen relaxes at Walden Pond	Nicole strips bark at Walden Pond	Wayside Inn Hawthorne's House
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Grave Concord, Mass	Nathaniel Hawthorne Concord, Mass	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Louisa May Alcott Concord, Mass	Louisa May Alcott's Grave, Concord, Mass
The Old North Bridge Concord, Mass	The Old Manse Concord, Mass	Emerson's Home Concord, Mass	Bucknell's Tavern Lexington, Mass	Akilah and Stephanie Walden Pond

 Day 3
Harvard University, African American Freedom Trail, Quincy Market

Harvard University Cambridge, Mass	Dr. Alfers discusses Harvard University	Longfellow's Home Cambridge, Mass	Memorial Hall Harvard University	MVC Students at Harvard University
African Meeting House African Freedom Trail	Pinkney House African Freedom Trail	Lewis Hayden House African Freedom Trail	Escape Alley African Freedom Trail	Phillips School African Freedom Trail
Frankin impersonator Boston Commons	Fanuiel Hall at Quincy Market	Paul Revere's Grave Boston, Mass	Shaw Memorial Boston Commons	Shaw Memorial Detail

Day 4
Rebecca Nurse Home and Witchcrat Sites, House of the Seven Gables, Salem Maritime Museum

Rebecca Nurse Home	Produce in the Nurse Kitchen	Trundle Bed in the Nurse Home	Spinning Wheel in the Nurse Home	Outer fence, Nurse Homestead
Dedication of the Witch Trial Memorial	Witch Trial Tricentennial Memorial	Text of the Witch Trial Memorial	Grave of George Jacobs, Witch Trial Victim	Symbolic Shackles, Witch Trial Memorial
Foundations of the Home of Rev. Samuel Paris	Replica of a 17th-century doll	Foundations of the side building	Steps into the basement of the Paris house	Closeup of the side building basement
Front of the House of the Seven Gables	House of the Seven Gables, Side View	Hawthorne's Desk, House of the Seven Gables	Nathaniel  Hawthorne's Birth House	USS Friendship, Salem Harbor

Day 5
The Mayflower II, Plimoth Rock, Burial Hill, Plimoth Plantation

Mayflower II	Stern of the Mayflower II	Food on the Mayflower II	Shallop of the Mayfloewr II	Bow of the Mayflower II
Mayflower II Interpreter	Mayfloewr II Bunk	Mayflower II Table	Mayflower II Cannon	Mayflower II Interpreter
Plimoth Rock	Plimoth Colony's Burial Hill	Original Pottery from Plimoth Plantation	John Kemp, Colonial Interpreter, speaks with MVC Group	Plimoth Colony Historical Interpreter
Wood Worker at Plimoth Colony	Street in Plimoth Colony	Plimoth Colony on the Atlantic	Plimoth Colony Fort	Colonial Interpreter speaks with MVC Student
A student speaks with a Wampanoag Woman	A Wompanoag works on a long house	A Wampanoag Woman stripping bark	A Wampanoag woman peels bark from a branch	A young Wompanoag girl studies weaving