'Inhabitant of the Mind'

Amos Bronson Alcott created the reformist Temple School in Boston.

“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), teacher, writer and reformer and a member of the Transcendentalists group based in Concord, Mass., where he is buried in the famous Sleepy Hollow Cemetery with other intellectual luminaries of the time.

'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.