Each honest man shall have his vote
Each child shall have his school
Equal on Sunday in the pew
On Monday in the mall.
For what avail the plough or sail
Or land or life, if Freedom fail.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Boston

Visit the historic Ralph Waldo Emerson House in which Emerson wrote his famous essays, "The American Scholar" and "Self Reliance" and entertained the likes of Bronson and Louisa May Alcott, his aunt Mary Moody Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and many others.

The house was purchased by Emerson in 1835, and he died there in 1882.  Today the house remains much the same as when the Emerson family lived there, and contains original furniture and Emerson's memorobilia.  A must-do part of any historic or literary tour of Concord!