Class Year
2019
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
Summer 8-21-2017
Department 1
Civil War Institute
Abstract
This summer, I have had the privilege of interning at Minute Man NHP in Concord, Massachusetts. My primary station here is the Wayside: Home of Authors. Right about now, you might be wondering what the Wayside is. That’s alright, I didn’t know what the house was until just this summer. The Wayside was the home of Louisa May Alcott, Nathanial Hawthorne, and Harriet Lothrop (or Margaret Sydney) – all prominent authors in the 19th century. This house also stood witness to the “shot heard round the world” and provided brief shelter to a fugitive slave. This house is a gold mine of history, yet with all this history comes challenges.
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Recommended Citation
Ortman, Olivia, "Concord’s Wayside: Home of What?" (2017). The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History. 215.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler/215
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