This morning I took a little trip to Concord, MA, where there are several famous authors' homes. I got pictures of the travel bug at four of them:
(1) The first stop was the house were Ralph Waldo Emerson lived from 1835 until his death in 1882.
(2) The second stop was "Orchard House," where the Alcott family lived from 1858 to 1877. Louisa May Alcott wrote "Little Women" in this house.
(3) The third stop was just a few hundred feet down the street, at a house called "The Wayside," which had several literary inhabitants. The Alcotts lived there for a time; they sold it to Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1852. Another writer who later lived there was Harriett Stone Lothrop, who wrote the "Five Little Peppers" series of books under the pen name of Margaret Sidney.
(4) The fourth stop was the "Old Manse," built was Ralph Waldo Emerson's grandfather. Emerson wrote his famous essay "Nature" in this house. Later, Nathaniel Hawthorne rented the house; he was the one who named it, after a collection of his own stories called "Mosses From an Old Manse."
After this little tour of Concord, I dropped the bug off at a book-swapping cache called "Book Buddies".