We are ALL about being Transcendental groupies the next two weeks!
Historian Richard Smith and independent scholar Rob Velella never fail to impress us with their charm, speaking skills and astonishing knowledge of their subject matter. Definitely two of our most favorite geeks (and trust us, we know a lot of those!)
The name John Matteson is probably familiar to any Louisa May Alcott fan as the author of "Eden's Outcasts". We look forward to seeing him in person and hearing more about his newest book on Margaret Fuller!
"Beautiful Types: Transcendentalism at Mount Auburn"
Saturday, January 28th from 3-4 pm
Join Rob Velella in Story Chapel for an illustrated talk on Mount Auburn’s connections to the Transcendentalism movement, from its beginnings as a religious movement to its role in literature. Several Transcendentalists are memorialized here, including Margaret Fuller, Frederic Henry Hedge, and Christopher Pearse Cranch.
John Matteson, "The Lives of Margaret Fuller"
Sunday, January 29th at 3:00 pm.
Please join us as we welcome back to the Bookshop Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Matteson, discussing his latest book,
"The Lives of Margaret Fuller".
John Matteson is a full professor of English and legal writing at The John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for his first book, "Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott".
"Theodore Parker, Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Many Revolutions of Lexington and Concord"
Friday, February 3rd at 8:00 pm
In this lecture, Historian Richard Smith will discuss the literary and spiritual connections between the two men and their two towns. How did Parker and Emerson use their revolutionary heritage to help change American literature and thought, as well as affect the Anti-slavery Movement of the 1850's. Lexington and Concord's rebellious ways did not end with the American Revolution!
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