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spaniel dog followed us from somewhere & went on to the "Wayside" with us - where Hawthorne (& Alcott, too) lived & wrote - with its woody hill behind and her studio or study window way up stairs. The Lothrops live there now. It was a warm day but we walked leisurely back, intending to go to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Our old man popped up front some where & questioned us about our dinner, etc. In the cemetery we found soldiers with wreaths. The bugle sounding and minute guns being fired. It was a suggestion of the British fleeing from our minute men - as they did almost on the spot - and quite fired me with reminiscent patriotism. A handsome & polite young orderly directed us to the graves we sought. Hawthorne's - a small old stone - only marked "Hawthorne" in a place surrounded by a hedge of evergreen. Thoreau's grave is near and almost opposite the Alcott's marked only "A.B.C." "L.M.A" "M.A.N" etc - initials. Emerson's is a large, rough & ruggid stone inscribed with a bronze tablet, I was quite

1895
Concord
spaniel dog followed us from somewhere & went on to the "Wayside" with us - where Hawthorne (& Alcott, too) lived & wrote - with its woody hill behind and her studio or study window way up stairs. The Lothrops live there now. It was a warm day but we walked leisurely back, intending to go to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Our old man popped up front some where & questioned us about our dinner, etc. In the cemetery we found soldiers with wreaths. The bugle sounding and minute guns being fired. It was a suggestion of the British fleeing from our minute men - as they did almost on the spot - and quite fired me with reminiscent patriotism. A handsome & polite young orderly directed us to the graves we sought. Hawthorne's - a small old stone - only marked "Hawthorne" in a place surrounded by a hedge of evergreen. Thoreau's grave is near and almost opposite the Alcott's marked only "A.B.C." "L.M.A" "M.A.N" etc - initials. Emerson's is a large, rough & ruggid stone inscribed with a bronze tablet, I was quite

1895
Concord
spaniel dog followed us from somewhere & went on to the "Wayside" with us - where Hawthorne (& Alcott, too) lived & wrote - with its woody hill behind and her studio or study window way up stairs. The Lothrops live there now. It was a warm day but we walked leisurely back, intending to go to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Our old man popped up front some where & questioned us about our dinner, etc. In the cemetery we found soldiers with wreaths. The bugle sounding and minute guns being fired. It was a suggestion of the British fleeing from our minute men - as they did almost on the spot - and quite fired me with reminiscent patriotism. A handsome & polite young orderly directed us to the graves we sought. Hawthorne's - a small old stone - only marked "Hawthorne" in a place surrounded by a hedge of evergreen. Thoreau's grave is near and almost opposite the Alcott's marked only "A.B.C." "L.M.A" "M.A.N" etc - initials. Emerson's is a large, rough & ruggid stone inscribed with a bronze tablet, I was quite
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