Women. Here we are in concorde, massachusetts, where the redcoats marched into the northbridge on april 19, 1775, starting the american revolution. This house, eventually much later than that becomes the home of Amos Bronson Alcott and his family. One of the daughters, Louisa May Alcott, in this house, writes a book the changes a lot of the way people think about children, the way they think about young women and mature women. It was a very progressive book for its day and in many ways today it still remains this because it is just a simple true to life story of four young women and their parents. Mister alcott was an educator in the early days. A very progressive thinker who was deeply in love with Mister Alcott. They were in boston when Mister Alcott met Ralph Waldo Emerson and struck up a deep friendship. He was well ensconced, he thought Bronson Alcott belongs here and the town had Something Special to offer, a Political Revolution in 1775 and a literary revolution in the 1800s but