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	Sleepy Hollow Cemetery: FAQ's
		Washington Irving is reputed to have populated The Legend of Sleepy Hollow with fictional characters patterned after local residents, some of whom are now interred in the colonial-era burying ground that surrounds the Old Dutch Church.
		Irving himself is buried at the southern end of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, overlooking the Old Dutch Church and its burying ground.
		A. Chamber of Commerce of Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown (http://www.sleepyhollowchamber.com), Historic Hudson Valley (http://www.hudsonvalley.org), Historic River Towns of Westchester (http://hudsonriver.com).
	www.sleepyhollowcemetery.org /faq.html (1009 words)

	Transcendentalism in Concord MA
		Concord MA was the center of a philosophical and social movement that, although small in scope, had important effects on American thought and literature.
		If you visit Concord, MA, 15 miles (24 km) west of Boston by road or train, you can tour his house, the Alcotts' Orchard House, the Old Manse where Hawthorne once lived, and also go out to Walden Pond and see the place where Thoreau's famous cabin stood.
		The grave monument of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord MA.
	www.newenglandtravelplanner.com /religion/transcendentalism.html (376 words)

	Henry David Thoreau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The American recluse, naturalist and writer Henry David Thoreau was born at Concord, Massachusetts, on the 12th of July 1817.
		The stock of the Thoreaus was a robust one; and in Concord the family, though never wealthy nor officially influential, was ever held in peculiar respect.
		His grave is in the Sleepy Hollow cemetery at Concord, beside those of Hawthorne and Emerson.
	www.nndb.com /people/468/000022402 (930 words)

	Sleepy Hollow Cemetery - Concord, MA, 01742 - Citysearch
		About as spooky-looking a cemetery as they come, Sleepy Hollow was a popular hangout for the somber 19th century literary set, who liked to walk together in its eerie quiet.
		Now the cemetery paths that the authors once strolled are filled with English majors on pilgrimage.
		The cemetery's Melvin Memorial, dedicated to three men of the same family killed during the Civil War, is the work of Lincoln Memorial designer Daniel Chester French.
	www.citysearch.com /profile/11352025 (179 words)

	Sleepy Hollow Cemetery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article is about the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in New York; there is also a Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Massachusetts, for which see Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord.
		Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York is the resting place of numerous famous figures, including Washington Irving, whose story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set in the adjacent Old Dutch Burying Ground.
		Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is a non-profit, non-sectarian burying ground of approximately 90 acres.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sleepy_Hollow_Cemetery (659 words)

	ABC News: Hawthorne Family to Be Reburied in U.S.
		Hawthorne Family to Be Reburied in U.S. Remains of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Wife and Daughter to Be Buried With His in U.S. This is an 1840 portrait of writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, painted by American artist Charles Osgood, that is part of the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass.
		The remains of his wife, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne and their daughter Una will be brought from England and reinterred June 26,2006, in the Hawthorne family plot at Sleepy Hollow cemetery in Concord, Mass.,where "The Scarlet Letter" author was buried in 1864, The Boston Globe reported Thursday, June 1, 2006.
		The remains of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne and their daughter, Una, will be brought from England and reinterred June 26 in the Hawthorne family plot at Sleepy Hollow cemetery in Concord, where "The Scarlet Letter" author was buried in 1864, The Boston Globe reported Thursday.
	abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/wireStory?id=2028451 (481 words)

	Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is a cemetery located on Bedford Road in the center of Concord, Massachusetts.
		The cemetery is the burial site of a number of famous Concordians, including some of the United States' greatest authors and thinkers.
		Sleepy Hollow has been in use since 1855, and people are still being buried there.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sleepy_Hollow_Cemetery,_Concord (206 words)

	Graves of Historically Significant Nurses
		The Alcott Family Marker in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord MA Louisa May Alcott is best known as the author of Little Women, the classic and still-loved children's novel based on her early family life in 19th century New England.
		As a proponent of human rights, a patriot, a spokesperson for children and families, and a nurse, Louisa May Alcott is aptly described, in the words of her father Bronson Alcott, as 'duty's faithful child'.
		She died on March 6, 1888 and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord MA.
	www.aahn.org /gravesites/alcott.html (428 words)

	Old Concord Chapter DAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The town of Concord, Massachusetts, is a lovely historic town where, on April 19th, 1775, the second battle of the American Revolution was fought.
		Lothrop founded the National Society Children of the American Revolution in Concord and Organized the North Bridge Society C.A.R. She served as National President from 1895-1901 and was made Honorary President for life.
		Margaret brought her mother to her beloved Concord, and she is buried on Author's Ridge in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts.
	members.aol.com /massdar/Massachusetts_DAR/concord.htm (558 words)

	USATODAY.com - Hawthorne joined by kin in final plot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		About 40 descendants of Nathaniel Hawthorne gathered in Concord on Monday to watch as the remains of his wife and daughter, buried for more than a century in England, were interred in the family plot at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery alongside the author.
		The burial, which was private, was in the cemetery's Author's Ridge, not far from where writers Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson are buried.
		By Chitose Suzuki, AP Flowers are seen in front of two new gravestones at Nathaniel Hawthorne's grave site at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Mass., Monday, after the reburial of Hawthorn's wife, Sophia, and daughter, Una.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2006-06-26-hawthorne-burial_x.htm?csp=34 (497 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Americas \| US literary couple unite in death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Maintenance of the plot in Kensal Green cemetery in north-west London was paid for by a Catholic order, the New York-based Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, which was founded by the Hawthornes' daughter, Rose.
		The ceremony at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord was attended by some 40 descendants of the Hawthorne family.
		A single casket containing the remains of both mother and daughter was carried through the town centre on a horse-drawn 1860 wooden hearse, believed to have also carried the coffin of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/americas/5120428.stm (344 words)

	Hawthorne family reburied next to author \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		Two new gravestones sit in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Mass., on Monday after the reburial of Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife, Sophia, and daughter Una from a cemetery in England, where they were buried for more than a century, to his grave site.
		On Monday, one modern casket containing the remains of mother and daughter was put on a horse-drawn 1860 wooden hearse and carried through the town center to a church for the memorial service.
		The burial, which was private, took place in the section of the cemetery known as Author's Ridge, not far from where writers Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson are buried.
	www.azstarnet.com /news/135373 (343 words)

	Poets&Writers, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The remains of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, the wife of nineteenth-century author Nathaniel Hawthorne, and those of their daughter Una will be shipped from London to Concord, Massachusetts, and buried next to the author's grave, in the Hawthorne family plot, on June 26, the Boston Globe recently reported.
		After he was buried at Sleepy Hollow cemetery in Concord, Sophia and their three children—Rose, Una, and Julian—moved to England.
		The Hawthorne family plot at Sleepy Hollow cemetery is near the graves of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
	www.pw.org /mag/is_hawthorne.htm (172 words)

	Beautiful Spots in Sleepy Hollow cemetery (and other Concord burial places)
		This is the second part of an occasional series about Sleepy Hollow cemetery (see the first installment here).
		Further down Bedford Road from Sleepy Hollow, St. Bernard's cemetery has two rows of large old maple trees which are brilliantly colored in the fall.
		This was a former farmer's field and lacks the dramatic ridges of Sleepy Hollow.
	www.concordma.com /magazine/janfeb02/sleepyhollow.html (369 words)

	Grave Stories : Guest Column by Kathye Fetsko Petrie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the introduction to Country Churchyards, writer Elizabeth Spencer says Welty saw in cemeteries "a vision of death as a part of life" in terms of them being extensions of community and family.
		One of my favorite graveyards is the "community" of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts.
		In a section of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery referred to as Author's Ridge are the final resting places of a community of writers who indeed knew each other: the American Transcendentalists-Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, A. Bronson Alcott and Henry David Thoreau.
	www.pifmagazine.com /SID/224 (682 words)

	Hawthorne Dominicans bring remains of founder's mother, sister home \| The-Tidings.com
		Nathaniel Hawthorne was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Mass., the town where the Hawthorne family had lived for some years.
		Sister Mary de Paul said the sisters also will pay for the vaults at the Concord cemetery; all other costs in the United States are being covered by donations.
		A public ceremony in Concord June 26 marked the reburial of Sophia and Una Hawthorne.
	www.the-tidings.com /2006/0707/hawthorne.htm (797 words)

	American Transcendentalism: Concord
		Visitors to Concord should consider the factors that contributed to the small town's emergence as a crucial place in American history and culture.
		Without a doubt, the place to stop in Concord is the Concord Museum, built on part of the Emerson apple orchard.
		The most famous home within Concord proper is the home Nathaniel Hawthorne dubbed "The Old Manse." Inhabited by several generations of ministers in Emerson's family, the Old Manse was both the home of Ralph Waldo Emerson and, later, Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne.
	www.shepherd.edu /transweb/concord.htm (1008 words)

	IHAS: Artist\|Movement\|Ideas
		Situated nineteen miles from Boston alongthe old Lexington Road, Concord became the first battleground of the American Revolution, as Yankee militiamen alerted by Paul Revere, routed the British troupes at the Old North Bridge.
		Throughout the 19th century Concord exerted a formidable influence on American cultural life due to the extraordinary confluence of American literati and artists who took up residence there.
		Among them were Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bronson Alcott and his daughter Louisa May, and Daniel Chester French--all of them buried on or near Authors' Ridge in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/ihas/icon/concord.html (858 words)

	Concord Walk on May 8th, 2004 sponsored by RWE Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Zoomable Concord Center street map (can be searched by address).
		Zoomable West Concord street map (can be searched by address).
		Nathaniel Hawthorne and his family lived in Concord for a time: view a reading list of his work.
	www.rwe.org /events/concord/Concord_Visit.htm (992 words)

	Boston Phoenix - The Best - Outdoors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Keep these morbid tourists away from Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord.
		There, tucked away in overgrown obscurity on a hilltop that must have dominated the landscape when Ralph Waldo Emerson dedicated Concord's "new" burying ground in 1855, lie buried Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Emerson, and the Alcott sisters.
		This is Authors' Ridge, a humble shrine to homegrown original thinkers and iconoclasts, a private place where the peace and melancholy overwhelm you with renewed appreciation for people who lived well and thought well.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /supplements/the_best/98/text/O_REFLECTION.html (146 words)

	Dee Funeral Home & Cremation Service
		Concord Children's Center, 1300 Main Street, West Concord, MA 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.led by Kelli Kirshtein, School Adjustment Counselor at CCHS.
		Concord, MA Call 978-287-4237 for reservations $10 to $15, group rates available.
		Concord Scout House, 74 Walden Street, Concord, MA 2 to 4 p.m.
	www.deefuneralhome.com /calendar.php (864 words)

	Daniel Chester French, Sculptor
		French's first famous sculpture, "The Minute Man," was commissioned by Ralph Waldo Emerson, a friend of Ward's, and unveiled at the Old North Bridge in Concord, MA, on April 18, 1875.
		He also made fine small works, such as a bust of Emerson, the statue of John Harvard that stands in Harvard Yard, and the haunting "Mourning Victory" in the Melvin Memorial in Concord's Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
		Daniel Chester French's grave is in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts, very near the Melvin Memorial.
	www.newenglandtravelplanner.com /people/french_dc.html (294 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - Hawthorne family reunited in Massachusetts cemetery
		Their remains were buried on Monday in Hawthorne's family plot at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Mass., after being moved from England.
		She died of typhoid pneumonia six years later and was buried at Kensal Green cemetery in London.
		A modern coffin containing the remains of mother and daughter was put on a horse-drawn 1860 wooden hearse and carried from a local funeral home to a church and then to the cemetery.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2006/06/27/hawthorne-burial.html (1427 words)

	Hines\|Wasser + Associates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		HinesWasser + Associates specializes in master planning and design of new internment space for historic cemeteries throughout the northeast.
		Our design work strives to integrate the needs of today’s market with the unique character of each individual cemetery landscape.
		We seek to preserve the essential qualities of important historical cemeteries while creating unique and sensitive memorials for the diverse communities that will visit them.
	www.hineswasser.com /cemetery.html (79 words)

	Concord Funeral Home - Obituaries
		She is survived by two sisters, Ilze Olmsted of Lexington and Laimdota Maizitis of Dublin, CA; a nephew, John Olmsted of Lancaster, PA; her brother-in-laws, Hugh Olmsted and William McCauley; and her students.
		In lieu of flowers gifts in her name may be made to the West Concord Union Church, Concord, MA 01742.
		Father of Robin of Acton, Craig E. of Asheville, NC, Merrill of Concord, Heather Comeau-Cromwell of Seattle, WA, Glenn E. of Lexington, Dawn L. of Atlanta, GA, and Sara Bibbo of Harvard.
	www.concordfuneral.com /obit.shtml (5625 words)

	Mass Moments: Hawthorne and Melville Meet for the First Time
		Authors' Ridge at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord.
		In February 1852, the family returned to Concord and bought the only home they would ever own; Hawthorne christened it "Wayside." They had barely settled in before he was offered a position as consul in Liverpool, England.He owedthe job to his having written the campaign biography for his lifelong friend and now president, Franklin Pierce.
		The family hoped the trip would restore his health, but when the author returned to Concord, it was to be laid to rest at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
	www.massmoments.org /moment.cfm?mid=227 (1233 words)

	Yankee Engineer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Public Ceremonies and Celebrations Committee of Concord, Mass., invited members of the New England District to take part in its annual Flag Retirement Ceremony, held on Veteran’s Day, November 11, at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord.
		During a torrential downpour, Col. Michael W. Pratt, District Engineer, marched in the procession to the cemetery and assisted in the flag raising ceremony.
		The tradition came about because many cemetery flags in the town are left in place during fall and winter.
	www.nae.usace.army.mil /news/dec981.htm (179 words)

	Meridian Magazine : : Print
		Walden Pond State Reservation, outside of Boston and a mile and a half south of Concord, delivers the idyllic scenes Thoreau fans expect: a clear lake surrounded by beaches, paths, and plenty of woods.
		Several American authors are buried in Sleepy Hollow cemetery in
		In Concord at 255 Main Street stands the three-story Greek Revival home where Thoreau lived from 1849 to 1862, and where he wrote Walden (1854).
	www.meridianmagazine.com /travel/050706bostonprint.html (696 words)

	Feature Story: 'Full Circle'
		Hawthorne was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Mass., the town where the Hawthorne family had lived for some years.
		The widowed Sophia and the couple's three children moved to England; Sophia and her daughter Una died there and were buried in London.
		There will be a public ceremony in Concord on Monday, June 26, to mark the reburial of Sophia and Una Hawthorne.
	www.cny.org /archive/ft/ft062206.htm (1108 words)

	The Academy of American Poets - Death, Be Not Proud: The Graves of Poets
		Though the Spoon River of the title is the name of an actual river in Illinois, the fictional town combines Lewistown, where Masters grew up, and Petersburg, where his grandparents lived—and where the poet is now buried in Oakland Cemetery.
		Because gravesites of famous individuals often become destinations for fans and tourists, it may be easy to forget that living family and friends also visit the spot to honor their deceased loved one—the person not the icon.
		When poet Jane Kenyon died from leukemia in 1995, her body was taken to Proctor Cemetery in Andover, New Hampshire, where a gravestone marks the place where her widower, current U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall, will someday join her beneath a headstone which already bears his name.
	poets.org /viewmedia.php/prmMID/19256 (552 words)

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