This episode explores spots important to the Transcendentalist movement in Concord. MA. First visited is the Orchard House, home of author Louisa May Alcott, where the narrator tours the home and describes the interior and its objects. The narrator goes into the School of Philosophy, located in the backyard of the Orchard House. Additionally toured is Ralph Waldo Emersons study and the interior is described. The narrator visits the Concord Museum which holds artifacts related to Henry David Thoreau. Emersons home, next to the Concord Museum, is then described. A dramatic re-creation of the New England Renaissance produced at Boston University. In this part of the series, the Transcendentalists are viewed from the perspective of 1954, when this program was recorded.
