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  • (the Indian name of the Concord River, meaning the river of meadows) to the Pond-Lily, which will be very beautiful and appropriate, as, during the summer season, she will bring home many a cargo of pond-lilies from along the river's weedy shore.

    Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • Indian name of the Concord River, meaning the river of meadows) to the

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various

  • In the end, she chose to "release" them into the brook behind our house, where they might swim freely for a while, and, in our collective imagination, perhaps even make it to the Concord River.

    Lori Day: When Parenting Your Adult Child Is Like Parenting Yourself: A Story Lori Day 2011

  • We cross over the Concord River and turn up Liberty Street.

    Pies & Prejudice Heather Vogel Frederick 2010

  • The No. branch of the Concord River is our ‘Central Park’ and one of the most beautiful pieces of simple scenery in New England.

    Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

  • But the man had been loving and steady and won her over as a solid rock in a family that sometimes felt more like rushing rapids than the still water of the grassy Concord River.

    Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

  • He located a small run-down cottage in Concord near the slow-flowing Concord River on the estate of Edmund Hosmer, secured it for a rent of $52 a month, and offered it to the Alcott family for nothing.

    Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

  • For the Alcott girls, there would be no more running down to the edge of the meandering Concord River or walking into town; instead, a wild clamber up a steep 500-foot ridge brought them to a place where they could see and feel their isolation.

    Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

  • BIO: Allen Bramhall was born by the banks of the Concord River in 1952 and has lived in Massachusetts ever since.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • BIO: Allen Bramhall was born by the banks of the Concord River in 1952 and has lived in Massachusetts ever since.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

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