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A guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson online
The observances this year of the two-hundredth anniversary of Ralph Waldo Emerson's birth, in 1803, have been measured but widespread: conferences were scheduled in the great man's adopted home town of Concord, Massachusetts, and, this fall, in Beijing and Rome. The year's issue of the Journal of Unitarian Universalist History is devoted to Emerson; a bicentennial exhibition ran at Harvard's Houghton Library from March to June; and in his birth month of May it was possible in Concord to mingle with actors playing the roles of such friends as Henry David Thoreau and the Alcott sisters and such significant relatives as his ...