Massachusetts

Boston

Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey. Trail passes Boston Public Garden containing a bronze sculpture by Nancy Schon of Mrs. Mallard and her eight ducklings.

Concord (Y0223)

Orchard House (339 Lexington Road) – Home of the Alcott family from 1858-1877 and the house described in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery – includes Author’s Ridge with graves of many Concord writers, including Thoreau, Emerson, Hawthorne and Alcott.

The Wayside (455 Lexington Road) – home to the Alcotts, Hawthornes, and later author Margaret Sidney who wrote The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew.

The Old Manse (Monument Street) – home of Hawthorne and Emerson.

Salem (0809)

American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, the son of a sea captain, was born in Salem on July 4^th, 1804. Trail passes the Custom House, where Hawthorne worked while writing The Scarlet Letter. Trail also passes the Seven Gables Settlement site, which includes Hawthorne’s birthplace and the home of his cousin Susannah, made famous in The House of the Seven Gables.