The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-11
BROOK FARM AFTER 70 YEARS
VISIT To THE SCENE or 4 "a
MOIS ENPERINENT.
me race Now nm A., lum for Orphans
tho Margaret Fuller Cottage the Only
Building I nchang ed-Only Two Mem.
hers % the Association surN wing.

BosToS. Sept 10 The street car con-
d,Ictor shook his head
Brook Farm, | never heard of IT.
he replied tn the stranger question.
But you must know was the pettish
reply for the day was warm and the vl-l-
tor was anxious not To he carried beyond
his destination Every body has heard
Of Brook Farm
Well ! never have, was the defiant
reply
Then just a. the pilgrim was saying ~
himself And this is culchAwed BOSTON,
pleasant faced Irishwoman leaned over
and said
It's Brook Farm we're asking after
| never was there. bur they do say Baker
street il the nearest way
The direction proved correct and the
pilgrim after leaving the car AZ Baker
street about a mile beyond West RoNburv
village was able 10 hold a straight { -orne-
what torrid courS. TO the farmstead
which just seventy summers before had
been secured for the purposes 81 tho
Brook Farm Association
The slzzling heat was almost forgotten
as tho cool reCes-eS. already some " hat
familiar through reading. came INTO
prospecr RsmnisCanc-s ~ Hawthorne
and Rlithedale Romance oi Ralph
Waldo Emeraon's condesc-nding patron
age Of the association. ~ Margaret Fuller =
conversations. which some OF them found
Interminable and a score OF well remem-
bered anecdotes crowded into mind as
the Hive was reached. half shaded by
the Willows. alongside the brook which
gives the place It's name
This IL truly q little journey back 10
1890 Brook Farm is found to-day 20 be
practically as unspoiled as when the
Rev George Ripley. bringing 10 a head
several years Of DISCUSSION IN the TrAns-
occidental Club. settled with his wife and
sister. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Minot Pratt
and his family and several other believers
IN the principle of cooperative association
there wer" twenty IN the initial group 70
on the spot destined for literary reasons.
TO become world renowned
That was IN the spring - lstI Nr
Ripley had become acquainted with the
charm - rhe place the preceding summer
when ne and his wife boarded with the
then pwnsr Mr. Ellis ~ that 'ht-
year - really the savrntIeth anniversary
- the experiment
Comparatively little mas baan changed
m n" sRvsnty years Thebruad meadoVE
gently rolling uplands. tho woodland
paths and the meadow brook winding
from clump - clurnp - v"n"rabl" willow
IRE to-day Just a. when ~. members
= the community worried and played
I'D studied and fru'ctf-I 'pRether
THIS quiet corner 81 "a" city - Boston.
-ltuatri about srghi miles south from
The golden dom" has "-'sue,i the Invad
ny march - suburban villas and apar' -
ment houses Although autOmubi -
OUR along nv" highway and N. bur =
distant trolley - heard. tn. s,l'ui"
and rern0t"n"-s - ~" place hay" h..an
yreTArv"'
II ,-",.y - In"-Stand how th" iistanc"
u town Iu IN" I'D days proved - h.. .
practical drawback =, Ear ~ M" trAns
por'i'i'u = farm Drpdu~-A wa- ON.
csrr"i mat The surrounding territory
na- not boon more tnickly settled j. due
T. ~ r"'rg - The grsstt natural rra's.
pnT'at|rr HIghUavz
Tn" reservation 4 Brook Farm i',arf