Before I move on to tell you about my writing retreat, I want to share some pictures significant to Nathaniel Hawthorne in Salem and Boston. I’ve tinkered far too long trying to get the pictures right. Bear with me. First, the house Hawthorne was born in, belonging to his grandfather, Captain Daniel Hathorne, on Union […]
Among many impressive sights in Salem, one was this, at Pioneer Village, of a very small cottage replicating those built in 1629. I imagine that this is the sort of cottage that Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne moves into, “abandoned by a discouraged settler,” after Pearl’s birth. When I think “cottage,” I think of little English cottages […]
Whenever I am overwhelmed, I fall back on an exercise from Heather Sellers’s Page after Page. List 10 items that you experienced, in ALL CAPS. 1. EAVESDROPPED ON TWO TOURS AT THE ROBERT GOULD SHAW MEMORIAL 2. TOOK PICTURES OF MARY DYER’S STATUE IN FRONT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE HOUSE 3. SAT IN KING’S CHAPEL […]
So far my trip has been AMAZING! (Note to self: All that anxiety was a waste of time.) I did not find a hotel, at least not one with a reasonable price attached, so while in Boston I stayed with the daughter of a good friend of mine–and felt as though I had met up with family. […]