Beyond Boston Area Literary Stops
Sightseeing
Concord-On Walden Pond-Thoreau Lyceum has a home replica of philosopher Henry David Thoreau. Walden Pond State Reservation (800-443-3332), Route 126 in Concord, 304 acres of hiking trails, fishing, canoeing, sailing and swimming mass.gov/eea/agencies/dcr/massparks/region-north/walden-pond-state-reservation.html
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Walden Pond State Reservation
915 Walden StConcord-On Walden Pond-Thoreau Lyceum has a home replica of philosopher Henry David Thoreau. Walden Pond State Reservation (800-443-3332), Route 126 in Concord, 304 acres of hiking trails, fishing, canoeing, sailing and swimming mass.gov/eea/agencies/dcr/massparks/region-north/walden-pond-state-reservation.html
Town of Harvard-Louisa' May Alcott's father, Amos Bronson Alcott, and his fellow transcendentalist members established a "New Eden" called Fruitlands in 1843 where vegetarianism and a return to nature were practiced. Visit the Fruitlands Museums (508-456-3924) and see the farmhouse transcendentalist museum.
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Fruitlands Museum
102 Prospect Hill RdTown of Harvard-Louisa' May Alcott's father, Amos Bronson Alcott, and his fellow transcendentalist members established a "New Eden" called Fruitlands in 1843 where vegetarianism and a return to nature were practiced. Visit the Fruitlands Museums (508-456-3924) and see the farmhouse transcendentalist museum.
Sudbury/Concord Area-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote about it in Tales of the Wayside Inn. Sudbury also boast a the school house where Mary had a Little Lamb was written.
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Longfellow's Wayside Inn Restaurant
72 Wayside Inn RdSudbury/Concord Area-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote about it in Tales of the Wayside Inn. Sudbury also boast a the school house where Mary had a Little Lamb was written.
Amherst-Birth place of Poet Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson Homestead (413-542-8161), Sections of the house are open year-round for tours.
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Musée Emily Dickinson
280 Main StAmherst-Birth place of Poet Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson Homestead (413-542-8161), Sections of the house are open year-round for tours.
Concord-Before she penned Little Women, which centers on life at home with a slew of sisters, Louisa May Alcott shared a colonial on 12 acres of land with three sisters of her own. Alcott’s father, Bronson, purchased the home in 1857. It was affectionately known as the Orchard House, because more than three dozen trees were heavy with apples.
http://www.louisamayalcott.org/
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Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House
399 Lexington RdConcord-Before she penned Little Women, which centers on life at home with a slew of sisters, Louisa May Alcott shared a colonial on 12 acres of land with three sisters of her own. Alcott’s father, Bronson, purchased the home in 1857. It was affectionately known as the Orchard House, because more than three dozen trees were heavy with apples.
http://www.louisamayalcott.org/
Sudbury/Concord Area-Wayside (800-443-3332), the residence once home to the Alcotts, Nathanial Hawthorne and Margaret Sidney, the 19th-century children's author, Hosts a working grist mill, picturesque chapel and one-room school house.
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Wayside Inn Grist Mill
72 Wayside Inn RdSudbury/Concord Area-Wayside (800-443-3332), the residence once home to the Alcotts, Nathanial Hawthorne and Margaret Sidney, the 19th-century children's author, Hosts a working grist mill, picturesque chapel and one-room school house.
Concord-Georgian house where Ralph Waldo Emerson & Nathaniel Hawthorne lived. Emerson wrote the influential essay “Nature,. Nathaniel and Sophia etched poems into the window panes, and their scribbles are still visible today
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The Old Manse
269 Monument StConcord-Georgian house where Ralph Waldo Emerson & Nathaniel Hawthorne lived. Emerson wrote the influential essay “Nature,. Nathaniel and Sophia etched poems into the window panes, and their scribbles are still visible today
Amherst -Children's Author Eric Carle
125 W Bay Rd, Amherst, MA 01002
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The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
125 W Bay RdAmherst -Children's Author Eric Carle
125 W Bay Rd, Amherst, MA 01002
Lowell-JJack Kerouac Park-Keroauc’s final resting place is the town where he grew up, and it's a popular pilgrimage site for his legions of readers. Snippets of Keroauc's work are also emblazoned onto granite markers nps.gov/lowe/historyculture/kerouac.htm
Jack Kerouac Park
75 Bridge StLowell-JJack Kerouac Park-Keroauc’s final resting place is the town where he grew up, and it's a popular pilgrimage site for his legions of readers. Snippets of Keroauc's work are also emblazoned onto granite markers nps.gov/lowe/historyculture/kerouac.htm
Salem- Birthplace of Nathaniel Hawthorne. The House of the Seven Gables(Turner-Ingersoll Mansion,), was based on a gloomy-looking structure that still stands nearby. The home was built in 1688
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La Maison aux Sept Pignons
115 Derby StSalem- Birthplace of Nathaniel Hawthorne. The House of the Seven Gables(Turner-Ingersoll Mansion,), was based on a gloomy-looking structure that still stands nearby. The home was built in 1688
Amherst-Edith Wharton wrote 40 books in 40 years, including such classics as The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome. Wharton designed and built The Mount
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The Mount, Maison d'Edith Wharton
2 Plunkett StAmherst-Edith Wharton wrote 40 books in 40 years, including such classics as The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome. Wharton designed and built The Mount
Gloucester-For over 100 years, the Sargent House was the home of sea merchants, patriots and community leaders. The house was built in 1782 for Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820), a philosopher, writer and an early advocate of women's equality.
Sargent House Museum
49 Middle StGloucester-For over 100 years, the Sargent House was the home of sea merchants, patriots and community leaders. The house was built in 1782 for Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820), a philosopher, writer and an early advocate of women's equality.
Concord-Previously on display furniture from Thoreau’s original cabin as well as the original furniture from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s study. These will return to display eventually. Right now you can still sit at a replica of Thoreau’s writing desk and view Paul Revere’s lantern.
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Concord Museum
53 Cambridge TurnpikeConcord-Previously on display furniture from Thoreau’s original cabin as well as the original furniture from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s study. These will return to display eventually. Right now you can still sit at a replica of Thoreau’s writing desk and view Paul Revere’s lantern.
Neighborhoods
Cambridge _Bike Tour/Drive by Author Former Homes: E.E. Cummings at 104 Irvings Street, T.S. Eliot at 14 Ash Street, Robert Frost at 35 Brewster Place, Henry James at 20 Quincy Street, and Vladimir Nabokov "Lolita" at 8 Craigie Circle.
Will update the map with these
Phillis Wheatley-105 Brattle Street published Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral,
W.E.B. DuBois — 20 Flagg Street writer and pioneer of civil rights lived in Cambridgeport while at Harvard from 1890 to 1893
Anne Bradstreet, America’s first poet, sailed in 1630 from England, her house stood at 1390 Mass Ave .
Margaret Fuller 71 Cherry Street & 42 Brattle St., where the transcendentalist, journalist, and author lived around 1831
Richard Henry Dana, Jr. — 16 Quincy Street . author of Two Years Behind the Mast
William Dean Howells — 41 Sacramento Street & 37 Concord Avenue
James Russell Lowell — 33 Elmwood Avenue-birthplace of the first editor of The Atlantic Monthly, who was also a Cambridge-based poet and Harvard professor, was built in 1753 — 16 Quincy Street
Thomas Wentworth Higginson — 29 Buckingham Street The author, abolitionist, and minister, who was born in Cambridge and graduated from Harvard, is best known now as the main pen pal of Emily Dickinson
Julia Child — 103 Irving Street Cookbook Author
Louisa May Alcott former house 10 Louisburg Square in the Beacon Hill section of Boston
https://historycambridge.org/self-guided-tour/self-guided-walking-tour-cambridge-through-the-pages/
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Cambridge
Cambridge _Bike Tour/Drive by Author Former Homes: E.E. Cummings at 104 Irvings Street, T.S. Eliot at 14 Ash Street, Robert Frost at 35 Brewster Place, Henry James at 20 Quincy Street, and Vladimir Nabokov "Lolita" at 8 Craigie Circle.
Will update the map with these
Phillis Wheatley-105 Brattle Street published Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral,
W.E.B. DuBois — 20 Flagg Street writer and pioneer of civil rights lived in Cambridgeport while at Harvard from 1890 to 1893
Anne Bradstreet, America’s first poet, sailed in 1630 from England, her house stood at 1390 Mass Ave .
Margaret Fuller 71 Cherry Street & 42 Brattle St., where the transcendentalist, journalist, and author lived around 1831
Richard Henry Dana, Jr. — 16 Quincy Street . author of Two Years Behind the Mast
William Dean Howells — 41 Sacramento Street & 37 Concord Avenue
James Russell Lowell — 33 Elmwood Avenue-birthplace of the first editor of The Atlantic Monthly, who was also a Cambridge-based poet and Harvard professor, was built in 1753 — 16 Quincy Street
Thomas Wentworth Higginson — 29 Buckingham Street The author, abolitionist, and minister, who was born in Cambridge and graduated from Harvard, is best known now as the main pen pal of Emily Dickinson
Julia Child — 103 Irving Street Cookbook Author
Louisa May Alcott former house 10 Louisburg Square in the Beacon Hill section of Boston
https://historycambridge.org/self-guided-tour/self-guided-walking-tour-cambridge-through-the-pages/
Literary Itinerary- List of books, Places to eat, 2 day Concord
https://asuitcasefullofbooks.com/a-literary-tour-concord-walden-pond/
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Concord
Literary Itinerary- List of books, Places to eat, 2 day Concord
https://asuitcasefullofbooks.com/a-literary-tour-concord-walden-pond/
Boston Literary District - 87 Literary Locations to Follow the Literary Trail
bostonlitdistrict.org
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Boston
Boston Literary District - 87 Literary Locations to Follow the Literary Trail
bostonlitdistrict.org
Lit Events
Boston Poetry Slam- Cantab Lounge in Cambridge, Mass.
every Wednesday night, beginning with an open mic, closing with a poetry slam,
738 Massachusetts Ave
738 Massachusetts AvenueBoston Poetry Slam- Cantab Lounge in Cambridge, Mass.
every Wednesday night, beginning with an open mic, closing with a poetry slam,
Arlington Author's Salon for Readings and First Friday Open Mic night
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Kickstand Cafe
594 Massachusetts AveArlington Author's Salon for Readings and First Friday Open Mic night
Add a Brew and Book Club while in town
Check Trillium Book Garden At Trillium Brewing Company
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Trillium Brewing Company
50 Thomson PlAdd a Brew and Book Club while in town
Check Trillium Book Garden At Trillium Brewing Company
Oct 16 – 23 Boston Book Festival
Copley Square Park
560 Boylston St, Boston, MA
Boston Book Festival (BBF) is an annual festival that is aimed to promote a culture of reading and the vibrant culture of Boston. During the festival, the Copley Square attracts about 32,000. https://rove.me/to/boston/boston-book-festival-bbf
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Copley Square
560 Boylston StOct 16 – 23 Boston Book Festival
Copley Square Park
560 Boylston St, Boston, MA
Boston Book Festival (BBF) is an annual festival that is aimed to promote a culture of reading and the vibrant culture of Boston. During the festival, the Copley Square attracts about 32,000. https://rove.me/to/boston/boston-book-festival-bbf