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THE CONCORD WRITERS... Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work

Thu, Mar 18

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Sailfish Club of Florida

Please join us for lunch as we welcome author SUSAN CHEEVER to our 2021 Season Speaker Series.

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THE CONCORD WRITERS... Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work
THE CONCORD WRITERS... Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work

Time & Location

Mar 18, 2021, 11:30 AM

Sailfish Club of Florida, 1338 N Lake Way, Palm Beach, FL 33480, USA

About the Event

The 1850s were heady times in Concord, Massachusetts: in a town where a woman's petticoat drying on an outdoor line was enough to elicit scandal, some of the greatest minds of our nation's history were gathering in three of its wooden houses to establish a major American literary movement. The Transcendentalists, as these thinkers came to be called, challenged the norms of American society with essays, novels, and treatises whose beautifully rendered prose and groundbreaking assertions still resonate with readers today. Author Susan Cheever stands in awe of the monumental achievements of such writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Louisa May Alcott, her personal, evocative narrative removes these figures from their dusty pedestals and provides a lively account of their longings, jealousies, and indiscretions. Through the pages of her best-selling book, American Bloomsbury, she reminds us that the passion of Concord's ambitious and…

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    MEMBER tickets are available for FREE to all current (2021 Season) Coudert Institute members.

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