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AT FRUITLANDS, ONE STOP, FOUR MUSEUMS

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20050619
Author:Jane Roy Brown, Globe Correspondent

HARVARD It is one thing to imagine perfection and another to live it. So little Louisa May Alcott and her four siblings discovered during her family's fleeting experiment on a communal farm called Fruitlands. In the six months spanning June 1843 to January 1844, a dozen Concord villagers embarked on a new life, clad only in linen and subsisting on fruit and bran.

Bronson Alcott, the father of 10-year-old Louisa May (who later wrote "Little Women" and other girls' books popular into the mid- 20th century), was a transcendentalist, abolitionist, and proto- vegan who shunned milk, eggs, meat, ...

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