The Alcotts: The Real Family Behind "Little Women"

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10 жыл бұрын

Jan Turnquist, executive director of Orchard House, discusses the daily activities and pursuits of the Alcotts, a trailblazing family of reformers.

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@maryselstead7554
@maryselstead7554 Ай бұрын
I was recently in Concord, and had the pleasure of meeting Ms. Turnquist while touring the Orchard House. It’s wonderful to reflect and remember the history of this amazing place.
@sualehakashif
@sualehakashif 4 жыл бұрын
How wonderful I'm 13 and uptill now "Little Women" is a really touching book. It's my favourite yet. I've read it about 10 times. This documentary was absolutely wonderful.
@sharonharris8152
@sharonharris8152 5 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful presentation ! Jan Turnquist's knowledge about , and passion for Orchard House and the Alcotts is amazing ! Orchard House is such an inspirational place to visit and a National Treasure !
@myreenmoorenicholson1516
@myreenmoorenicholson1516 4 жыл бұрын
I understand that Thomas Fox's kitchen and dining room were added to the Orchard House. He was my great great+ grandfather, the first of the Foxes to come here in 1638. They lived in the block, so to speak, and after several generations moved away to Connecticut, and his house was moved to be added to the what was to become the Alcott house.. I was an English major, and always a fan, also, of all the Concord writers. I visited Ralph Waldo Emersons' House back around 1964, and saw the writing scratched in the window, and how it overlooked the Old North Bridge, and "The Shot Heard Around the World." I never suspected, or rather thought about, the fact that Emerson and Thoreau would visit Bronson Alcott in that house. I can't wait to come again to Concord again, and see my direct ancestor's carpentry..---Myreen Moore Nicholson
@wwlt.trevor0512
@wwlt.trevor0512 Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much - This was very informative. I’m also thankful to the last audience member for her question about Mr. Alcott’s Depression. He was a complicated man and I can only imagine how difficult it must have been to have stayed married to this person and have as a father. I very much appreciate seeing both halves of this story.
@denvermclean1204
@denvermclean1204 3 жыл бұрын
I got goosebumps watching this the whole time. Little Women was my first novel that a read in completion. Fell in love with the movie (and Christian Bale) :)
@joshuatrees797
@joshuatrees797 7 жыл бұрын
This is absolutely wonderful. Thank you!
@superdani152003
@superdani152003 4 жыл бұрын
this is amazing!thank you for sharing with us
@marcybrooks3425
@marcybrooks3425 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I will be in Concord next week and this was very enlightening.
@TheEssiEssi
@TheEssiEssi 4 жыл бұрын
Little women was my favorite book as child and still is. I've red it atleast 8 times. This is so wonderfull to know about them.
@Ruby20111000
@Ruby20111000 7 жыл бұрын
What a forward woman was Marmee
@deborahnoonan9188
@deborahnoonan9188 5 жыл бұрын
Ruby20111000 A
@LisyRuiz
@LisyRuiz 4 жыл бұрын
so so lovely! i’ll need to go back & reread Little Women ❤️ thank you for posting
@claudiamurguia2445
@claudiamurguia2445 Жыл бұрын
Very,very intersting.
@Anastasia-wo1tz
@Anastasia-wo1tz Жыл бұрын
Ese libro cambió mi vida, yo queria ser Jo March.
@albertodillon
@albertodillon 4 жыл бұрын
I have seen the movie and I am reading the novel "Little Women "
@ihateprimagama6750
@ihateprimagama6750 2 жыл бұрын
Now i ask Why my mom watching this and put all her movie on my history
@madeofstarlight22
@madeofstarlight22 4 жыл бұрын
Bookmark: 21:48
@jensmom604
@jensmom604 4 жыл бұрын
Old man Alcott had no shame in allowing his wife to work and support the family.
@loanicastillo3327
@loanicastillo3327 29 күн бұрын
Were they vegetarians?
@loanicastillo3327
@loanicastillo3327 29 күн бұрын
In "Little Men" Louisa lived in a farm house. I don't know how Alcott could not manage Fruit Lands. To live in a farm is the most real non utopic thing you can make. Maybe because I read he thought he could not use cows to plough the land. He was rather selfish and unrealistic and a bad father who judged people for the smallest flaws. A great psychologist or philosopher but a very bad father. Slavery was not wrong in itself either. Freedom in slavery is stood by apostle Paul. You don't need physical freedom but freedom from sin. English women had house maids but what was wrong was how black women made it all: They cared for the white children not their very own mothers and they breastfed them giving opportunity to their owners to give birth to endless numbers of children, just as in England. Population growth is the great Evil, it is in the Bible. The real Devil. He had four daughters. Ana and May had children and in doing so they were unfortunate like Charlotte Brontë.
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