Orchard House: The Home of Little Women

26m 46s

A captivating new documentary that transports viewers to a 350-year-old home in Concord, Massachusetts with literary and historical significance unlike any other. With a nurturing, talented family as owners and literary giants Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorne as neighbors, Orchard House uniquely inspired Louisa May Alcott to write Little Women at a desk in her room.

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Orchard House: The Home of Little Women

26m 46s

A captivating new documentary that transports viewers to a 350-year-old home in Concord, Massachusetts with literary and historical significance unlike any other. With a nurturing, talented family as owners and literary giants Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorne as neighbors, Orchard House uniquely inspired Louisa May Alcott to write Little Women at a desk in her room.

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