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Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-; In Cold Marble, and in Ideas That Fire the Imagination, the Sage of Concord Lives On

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20030525
Author:Hillel Italie

Concord is a town for walking, for circling the narrow trail around Walden Pond, or stepping past the graves of Sleepy Hollow, or loafing along the landmarks of Monument Square, with its pillared churches and flat-brick civic hall.

Great writers have lived here -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott -- and something about the town, founded in 1635, still startles the mind. Just as time compresses from the awareness that on foot you can cover much of Concord within a day, it expands into infinity as you stand before the silent -- and silencing -- waters of Walden.

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