'The Old England of New England'

The Wayside, in Concord, Mass., home in turn to the Alcott family,  novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and  writer and publisher “Margaret Sidney’’ (a nom de plume )— real name was Harriett Lothrop.

—- Photo by Dadero

“I perceive that I am neither a planter of the backwoods, pioneer, nor settler there, but an inhabitant of the Mind, and given to friendship and ideas. The ancient society, the Old England of New England, Massachusetts for me.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), an American teacher, writer, philosopher and reformer, father of writer Louisa May Alcott (Little Women, etc.) and member of the famous literary community of Concord, Mass.