Transcendentalism

<p><span class="deck">At Brook Farm a handful of gentle Bostonians launched a noble but short-lived experiment in communal living.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">The idealists who founded this utopian colony were singularly well-versed in mystical philosophy and singularly ignorant about farming.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> In the blustery days of late fall, the traveler still can find the sparseness and solitude that so greatly pleased the Concord naturalist in 1849</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">A distinguished scholar of American literature discusses why, after a career of study and reflection, he believes that Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman are bad for you.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A BOLD NEW KIND OF COLLEGE COURSE BRINGS the student directly to the past, non-stop, overnight, in squalor and glory, for weeks on end.</span></p>

<p>Famous writers including Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and the Alcotts turned Sleepy Hollow Cemetery into our country’s first conservation project.</p>