Concord in the Mid to Late 19th Century Home of Transcendentalist Writers, but also my Great-Great Grandfather “At the end of [the Milldam Street’s] short length, Walden Street branches abruptly to the left. Speedily quitting the clustered buildings of the town, this street leads across a mile of Concord’s level meadows until it begins to climb a wooded slope. […] In the woods to the left lies ‘Fairyland’ with its pond, beloved in Concord for its natural beauty and its earliest skating.”1 Sometimes the best entry points into history are the places it touches you […]