Road Trip: Lexington & Concord

WBZ, MA

Read more in our Privacy Policy The grave of Louisa May Alcott , on Authors Ridge inside the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. The graves of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Thoreau are nearby. Located across from Lexington Green, Buckman Tavern ...

Theater preview: "Little Women"

OnMilwaukee.com, Milwaukee

The play is an adaptation of the famous Louisa May Alcott classic and tells the story of five remarkable women living in New England during the Civil War. From its 2005 staging on Broadway to its subsequent national tour, this family-friendly telling ...

Players stages sisters' story

Rocky Mount Telegram, NC

Seven adults and 20 children will star in Louisa May Alcott's classic, which has been adapted for the stage by Sandra Fenichel Asher, Cashwell said. I wanted to find a play that reached as many people young and old as did 'Anne of Green Gables' last ...

Author's Forum

Nashua Telegraph, NH

My all-time favorite is Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, with Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind a close second and third. Other favorites are Suzanne Brockmann's Dark of Night, Catherine Mann's ...

In trees, fresh perspective for Fruitlands

Boston Globe, United States

The museum takes its name from a short-lived experimental society called Fruitlands, which was founded on the land in 1843 by Bronson Alcott , father of the writer Louisa May Alcott . The Alcott family and about a dozen other people moved to Harvard to ...

Author with multicultural influences to speak to teen readers

Chattanooga Times Free Press, TN

I'm 15 minutes from where Louisa May Alcott wrote. It's just a town that's steeped in literature and a love of books and love of stories. It's really a great place to be if you love books. * What: Writing workshops for teens with author Mitali Perkins. ...

Summer smiles - Comedy abounds in Hope Summer Repertory Theatre's ...

HollandSentinel.com, MI

It's a musical adaptation of the classic American novel by Louisa May Alcott , D'Oyly said. HSRT's two Children's Performance Troupe shows are Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type and Charlotte's Web. Directors for the 2009 season include HSRT Artistic ...

From the Library: It's all in a name

Daily News Transcript, MA

Five women, Louisa May Alcott , Willa Cather, Emily Dickinson, and Charlotte and Emily Bronte joined the ranks and their names were proudly inscribed along with Melville, Swift, Huxley, Kipling, and Frost and others. The committee could not decide ...

Homeschoolers and summer reading

Examiner.com

"Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott . Beautiful stories, rich in detail, about the March family and four sisters. Set in New England, during mid 1800's. "American Girl" series; there is a series for each of the dolls, spanning much of the history of the ...

Sports and Poesy

Daily Kos, CA

I can still see the poor guy in a ratty old sweater of my father's sipping Scotch and holding the cards in his shaky hands: "Do you have any Louisa May Alcott ?" Poor jerk. After about the third day of a drizzly November (he wrote a little verse about ...

Running clubs hold group trot

Sammamish Review, wa

As the culminating event for the running clubs of four plateau elementary schools Mead, Elizabeth Blackwell, Christa McAuliffe, and Louisa May Alcott teachers and parents organized a Fun Run June 1. Thomas Dulski of McAuliffe Elementary crosses the ...

Twelve Greater Boston Historic Sites Win Preservation Grants

Edubourse.com (Communique de presse), France

These grant recipients include: Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts; Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House; Mount Auburn Cemetery; National Monument to the Forefathers; New England Aquarium; Norfolk County Agricultural High School Dairy Barn; ...

Theater Events

Northwest Herald, IL

WHERE: Vernon Hills Sullivan Center, 635 N. Aspen Drive, Vernon Hills ABOUT: Adapted from the novel by Louisa May Alcott . Presented by Improv Playhouse Young Actors Workshop. Story of the four March girls, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as they grow to ...

BRIEF: literary legends dance with delight in spotsylvania: The ...

California Chronicle, CA

Characters from Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" and JK Rowling's "Harry Potter" will be among the literary figures jumping from the pages and onto the stage. The Jazz, Tap and Musical Theater theme is "On Broadway. ...

Reference Review

School Library Journal

The work of classic authors such as Louisa May Alcott and EB White, along with contemporary writers such as Judy Blume and Jack Gantos, is excerpted to " help build language skills and encourage a love of reading." Many of the quotes are uninspiring ...

Follow the Connecticut River

Canada.com, Canada

Our lingering view of the Connecticut River starts at Walpole, NH Home to prolific documentary filmmaker, Ken Burns, and the summer retreat for Little Women author Louisa May Alcott , this quiet village exudes an understated elegance through its ...

For What It's Worth: Mustangs Need to Understand Community

American Chronicle, CA

If longevity is a goal, this city sometimes proves harder to court than a Louisa May Alcott heroine. The Mustangs follow in the footsteps of the failed St. Joe Blacksnakes, an unaffiliated independent minor league team that gave up on Phil Welch ...

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, China

Louisa May Alcott ...