![]() ![]() I was greeted by an amiable tour guide, Samantha deSuze, in a red polo shirt and khaki pants. Lawns spanned on both sides of the path, covered with apple trees. At the end was to a two-story brown house with a green door and a shingled roof. I walked along the rocky path bordered by lavender hosta bushes. A short, middle-aged woman with snow-white hair and wearing a red volunteer shirt trimmed the bushes while a visitor rested on a wooden bench in the shade of a massive elm tree. ![]() I parked in front of the wooden fence lined with purple verbenas, white Gerber daisies and rose bushes. After moving 22 times in nearly 30 years, the Alcotts found their most permanent home at Orchard House, where they lived from 1857-1877. The book was the start of Louisa’s success as a writer of children’s stories. ![]() Orchard House is best known as the setting of Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women”, a novel based on the lives of the author and her three sisters -Anna, Elizabeth, and May- that details their passage from childhood to womanhood. I went past farmland lined by rural homes before I arrived at Orchard House, home of the Alcotts in Concord, Massachusetts. Joggers and bikers made rare appearances on the two-lane Lexington Road. The bright sun filtered through pine and sycamore trees. ![]()
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