Day 10: October 8, 2015--Concord, MA GALLERY

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Key to the Map:

1. Railroad Depot
2. Concord Visitor Center
3. Authors' Ridge at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
4. The Old Manse
5. The Old North Bridge
6. The Concord Museum
7. The Ralph Waldo Emerson House
8. The Emerson-Thoreau Amble to Walden Pond

Today's Gallery is divided into four parts:

• Authors' Ridge at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
• The Old Manse, the Robbins House, and the Old North Bridge
• The Concord Museum and the Ralph Waldo Emerson House
• The Emerson-Thoreau Amble to Walden Pond

Authors' Ridge at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Map 3)

Before setting off, we stopped at the Visitor Center to plan our campaign. (Photo by Lila)

A wide shot of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Photo by Lila)

In addition to the usual tributary pens, someone left Thoreau a letter. (Photo by Lila)

Hawthorne's stone is in keeping with his retiring public persona.

Ms Alcott's modest marker (Photo by Lila)

Emerson was clearly more comfortable with the public than the others. (Photo by Lila)

The Old Manse, the Robbins House,
and the Old North Bridge (Map 4 and 5)

The Old Manse. (Yes, it's the same shot as in the post.)

The Robbins House, now an interpretive center for African American history in Concord.
(Photo by Lila)

Obelisk placed "By the rude bridge that arched the flood" in 1837,
inscribed with lines from Emerson's "Concord Hymn" (Photo by Lila)

The 1956 replacement bridge (Photo by Lila)

Marker for the grave of two "Redcoats," whose "English mother made her moan..."
(Photo by Lila)

This diorama of the battle, and the following, are in the Concord Museum.

Another diorama from the Concord Museum (Photo by Lila)

The Concord Museum and the
Ralph Waldo Emerson House (Map 6 and 7)

The Concord Museum stands across the street from the Emerson House.

The interior of Emerson's study was moved across to the
Museum in 1930, allowing viewing by "pilgrims" year-round.

Furniture used by Thoreau in his cabin at Walden. It
is said he wrote Civil Disobedience on that desk.

Bronze cast of a study by Daniel Chester French for
the Lincoln Memorial (1922), which we would see later
in the trip. That local sculptor really got around!

Exterior of the Emerson House, across from the Museum. No interior photos allowed.

The Emerson-Thoreau Amble to Walden Pond (Map 8)

Into the woods (Photo by Lila)

Lila was ecstatic to be in that forest!

Fairyland Pond, where the Emerson children used to play.

Reverencing Thoreau's cabin site. (Photo by Lila)

The cairn has been created by over a century's worth of visitors. (Photo by Lila)

The beauty of the pond in autumn. (Photo by Lila)

People having fun by the pond. (Photo by Lila)

Sunset over Walden Pond. (A fitting end to the day, don't you think?) (Photo by Lila)

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