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First lady focuses attention on historic preservation efforts.(Editorial)

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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 20020623
Author:Beckham, Beverly

Strange, isn't it? I have lived my entire life just 30 minutes from the house Louisa May Alcott lived in and used for the setting of her most famous book, "Little Women." In seventh grade, I read "Little Women" and "Little Men" and "Eight Cousins" and "Jo's Boys" and every Alcott book the Codman Square library would lend me. I loved everything she wrote. And yet I never then or even later thought about visiting the house where so much of what she wrote took place.

I made it a point to visit Thomas Wolfe's house in Asheville, N.C., though I was there for just a day. I called ...

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