People of Concord Summer Lecture Series: “A Lady of Much Wit and Genius”: Mary Moody Emerson in Concord
Concord Museum 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United StatesJuly 26 @7:00 pm Born in Concord, Mary Moody Emerson (1774-1863) grew up in near by Malden, Massachusetts, but her connection to her native town remained close throughout her life. The aunt of Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mary Emerson was a brilliant intellectual in her own right. Not only did Bronson Alcott and Henry Thoreau…