The Wayside Authors

"Let America then prize and cherish her writers; yea, let her glorify them. They are not so many in number as to exhaust her good will."
Herman Melville
"Hawthorne and His Mosses"
Literary World, 1850

Louisa May and Bronson Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Margaret Sidney helped shape America's literary heritage. Not only is their spirit still reflected at their home - The Wayside, but in the written record of their lives and in their works.