All of Concord's famous literati rest together at Author's Ridge in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. After visiting the houses where they lived and worked, stop by this hallowed ground where Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, and her father and close friend of Emerson, Bronson Alcott (1888), are laid to rest. Emerson orated the cemetery's dedication in 1855 and wrote his own epitaph for his headstone, which contains the lines from his poem, "The Problem:" "The passive master lent his hand to the vast soul which o'er him planned."
Massachusetts Center for the Book
