Monday, June 13, 2011

Authors Gate

Our visit to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery was interesting. Figured we ought to do something to do with history, so we went and visited some of the great authors of past.
Sleepy Hollow has eleven authors buried there.
1) Ralph Waldo Emerson
2)Henry David Thoreau
4)Louisa May Alcott ( author of Little Women)
5)Daniel Chester French
6)Ephraim Wales Bull
7)Mrs. Daniel Lothrop (Margaret Sidney)
8)Elizabeth Peabody
9)George Frisbie Hoar
10)Melvin Memorial
11)F.B. Sanborn
Sleepy Hollow is located in Concord Mass.









Also of interest.......the first women issued a licence to drive in America....Anne Rain Ford French

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