Having settled into Concord’s rural sister town of Carlisle just over one year ago I have learned a thing or two over the past 14 months. Last year I was completely surprised by what a collective and celebrated holiday Halloween is here in Carlisle. This years however, I watched with fascination as the [...]

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Heywood Meadow has survived over 370 years in Concord and is a link to Concord’s pre-history as an area used by Native Americans and later to the first English settlement of Concord in 1630’s. Its survival has not been without incident. It was originally part of Concord’s Mill Pond constructed in the early [...]

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Down the road from Orchard House in Concord, is the Alcott’s first home, pictured above. This is actually the home where much of the basis for stories of Louisa May Alcott’s book Little Women unfolded during the sisters’ childhood. The home was later sold to Nathaniel Hawthorne by Bronson Alcott as the first [...]

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Every now and then when you’re driving toward a destination something catches your eye and your imagination. This kind of beauty exists along Lowell Road in Concord, MA and one is hard pressed not to give in and look sideways, if only for moment. My daughters and I pass this stretch of [...]

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As promised, I returned to the Cranberry Bog for Fall Harvest. Never actually having seen it in action it was quite an amazing sight. I walk these paths around the Bog rather frequently and up until last week was concerned I could only catch the faintest hint of berry or any other reddish [...]

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