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Date: 20010812
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CONCORD, Mass.

Concord, Mass., is the quintessential New England town: village green, steepled churches, low stone walls, leafy streets lined with 18th-century houses. Those qualities alone make it irresistible. But its literary credentials are the clincher. The town was home to Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, the Alcotts, Margaret Sidney and others. You can stroll from Wayside (home of Hawthorne and the Alcotts) to Orchard House (instantly familiar to readers of "Little Women") to Hawthorne's Old Manse to Emerson's former digs, then walk over to the wonderfully atmospheric Sleepy Hollow ...

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