No other American community outside New
York can claim a community of thinkers, artists, and writers as rich as
those who lived in Concord, Massachusetts, in the early 1830's. Hawthorne,
Thoreau, Emerson, Louisa May Alcott--they were only four of almost two
dozen influential Americans who shaped American philosophy, the development
of American letters, and the character of American communities.
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Click here
to see a photo of Thoreau's grave in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts.
This page was last modified
on July 5, 2008,
and is maintained by
Dr. Geoffrey A. Grimes.
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