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Go inside the 350-year-old home in Concord, Massachusetts where Louisa May Alcott wrote and set Little Women in 1868. With a nurturing, talented family as owners and literary giants Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne as neighbors, Orchard House uniquely inspired Louisa May Alcott to write a book that has never been out of print and has been translated into over 50 languages.

Home is a powerful metaphor guiding the literature of African Americans throughout the twentieth century. While scholars have given considerable attention to the Great Migration and the role of the northern city as well as to the place of the South in African American literature, few have given specific notice to the site of "home." And in the twenty years since Houston A. Baker Jr.'s Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature appeared, no one...

Clara is a senior vice president of a New York finance company. After her mother's death from breast cancer, she inherited her Long House Winery, becoming the fourth generation woman owner. Her weekend planned trip to Eastern Washington to sell the winery was filled with unpredictable events that lasted week. Clara's initial friendship with the father and son owners of the Bennington Winery gave her the opportunity to learn about wine, wine making,...