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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