Inspired in Solitude: Travel in New England and COVID-19

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Hannah White July 2, 2020

Thoreau's Cabin in Concord, MA
by Hannah White
Social distancing: a term previously unknown to most that grew in common usage seemingly overnight. Though we are living in extremely uncertain, difficult, and often lonely times with the ever-changing COVID-19 situation, we can still keep dreaming about travel, while also enjoying the solitude and break in the hustle and bustle of modern life that many New England authors produced their best works under. Though living in intentional, temporary solitude, many transcendentalist New England authors like Henry David Thoureau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and...

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