Dreamers Rise

Van Wyck Brooks: He had a painter's delight in tone. He liked to throw a ghostly glimmer over scenes that he chose b...

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts. We found the Thoreau family plot first, and thought that maybe the offerings of writing im...

Nathaniel Hawthorne: One afternoon, he was seized with an irresistible desire to blow soap-bubbles; an amusement, as Hepzibah told Ph...