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The Alcott family plot is a few yards to the east of the Thoreau family plot in a back lot of the Concord Cemetary. The design of the stones is similar to the Thoreau's, exceedingly modest, with Louisa May Alcott's stone having the simple initials LMA.From the Encyclopedia Brittanica: Louisa May Alcott born Nov. 29, 1832, Germantown, Pa., U.S. died March 6, 1888, Boston, Mass.U.S. author. Daughter of the reformer Bronson Alcott, she grew up in Transcendentalist circles in Boston and Concord, Mass. She began writing to help support her mother and sisters. An ardent abolitionist, she volunteered as a nurse during the American Civil War, where she contracted the typhoid that damaged her health the rest of her life; her letters, published as Hospital Sketches (1863), first brought her fame. With the huge success of the autobiographical Little Women (1868–69), she finally escaped debt. An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886) also drew on her experiences as an educator.Bloggers Tom Morris and Jim Moore toured the burial plot on September 11, 2006

• Release Date

  Sep 11, 2006

• Runtime

  00:36