The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-05

uEeu Ol larger grow III IulS part OF the
celebration will be especially interest
ing, reminding them as it will of the
day in 1878 when the boys and girls of
Concord turned out in force to welcome
the sage on his return from a visit to
Europe. The main function. however,
will take place at the First Parish
Meeting House in the afternoon, when
there will beg addresses by Professor
Charles Eliot Norton, Senator George
F. Hoar, Colonel Thomas Wentworth
Higginson and Professor William
James of Harvard. In the evening
there will be a dinner, with a number
of the old friends of Emerson as guests
of honor. y,
The arrangements for the affair are
in charge of the Social circle, an organ
ization founded in, 1882. of which En-
erson was a member for forty-three
years. The circle has but twenty five
members, and only in case of. a vacan-
cy is d new member admitted. A com
mittee consisting of Samuel Hoaf, l..
B. donald, Edward J. Bartlett. Viii
liam L.. Eaton and Thomas f.. Ellis has
charge of the programme fer the day.
AS a matter sof course. the hundreds
who will visit the city for, the Emerson
centenary viii want to. pay d visit to
The house in which he did so .puch of
his work. The old mansion stands at
the corners of thessL exington turnpike
kand3the Cambridge road and IS now oc-
cupied by Miss Ellen Emerson, the. pc.
et.sSeldest daughter, who has been liV-
ing there in retirement since the death
Of her father, The house is practically
III the same condition as it was when
he passed away IT stands some little
distance from the road and is half hid
den. by a. clump ofspine trees. To the
right Of the entrance, is the library, in
which Emerson. spent a great part Of
his life, and upstairs is his, study, a
coy little room. H.. =
Another house Of interest in connec-
ton with the poet is the :@Old Manse,"
made famous by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
This was built by the Rev. William
Emerson in 1765 and was Ralph Waldo
Emerson's home for a number of years.
It was here that he wrote Mature
Sleepy Hollow cemetery will also be
Mecca for centenary visitors. for it Is
here that Emerson's grave will be
found, as well as the graves of such
other iIlustrious people as Thereau. the
Alcotts and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Emerson's resting place is marked by
huge rose quartz bowlder. to which 1s
affixed a copper tablet inscribed with
the date and place of birth Of the phi
losopher. ~-s
Concord has indeed been the home of
notables. A little way up Main street
stands the old dwelling place of Mar
garet Fuller, between whom and EN-
erson warm friendship existed. She
was the editor of the Dial, high class
literary and religious magazine which
was established by Emerson in 1910
Another house on the same street was
the home of William Monroe. once one
of the great men of Concord. z-Ess
Concord has many other interesting
landmarks. Passing the cemetery, one
sees an old mansion which was used
as blockhouse at the time of King
Philips war. On Lexington road is the
Wright tavern, built in 1147, reputed
to have been the favorite drinking
place of Pitcairn, the English chief.
Next to the tavern stands church
built on the plan of the old Concord
meeting house, where the first provin-
cial congress of delegates from the
towns of Massachusetts organized in
April, 1774.
Then, too. there is the famous Con-
cord battle-ground, where was fired
the shot heard round the world when
the first conflict for American indie
pendence was begun. It is only few
steps from the old manse to the battle
ground, and townfolk tell the story
of how Emersons grandmother held
her children up to the window and inn
pressed upon them the significance Of.
the battle then being fought by the
patriots and the redcoats.
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