We lost two months of the summer due to the blood clot that emanated from my heart and went down my left arm last July. See "A Brush with Death and Much Discomfort." Hence, our adventures this year have been few.
Now that I have recovered we are taking the opportunity with the time remaining to catch up on our explorations. Last weekend we traveled to Concord Massachusetts to learn more about the "shot heard round the world." It was a beautiful Saturday, with autumn colors and mild temperatures.
Visit to the Emerson House
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first and then revised them for print. His first two collections of essays, Essays: First Series (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844), represent the core of his thinking. They include the well-known essays "Self-Reliance", "The Over-Soul", "Circles", "The Poet" and "Experience". Together with "Nature", these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period
Highlight:s of his life:
- Graduated from Harvard College, 1821
- Unitarian Clergyman, Boston 1826-1832
- Started career as a lecturer, 1833
- Settled in Concord, 1833
- Published "essays First Series, 1841
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