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Little Women by Louise May Alcott | Concord, MA

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October 11-14, 2018 • Vanessa Zoltan

Join Common Ground for our first pilgrimage in which we will treat writing as a sacred practice and celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publishing of Little Women. We will gather in prime New England foliage season in Concord, MA to spend three days and nights reading, walking and writing on the hallowed ground where Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott and Hawthorne lived, walked, loved and wrote.

What’s Included

  • 3 nights at Concord Colonial Inn (shared or private room)

  • All meals from dinner on Thursday night through breakfast on Sunday morning

  • Lectures from experts on writing and Little Women

  • Organized small group time and writing exercises

  • One-on-one chaplaincy

  • Admission to Orchard House and excursion to Walden Pond

  • Parking on premises

Please Read! All registrants must read and agree to our Terms & Conditions

Shared Rooming: If you wish to share a room with another person, you will each purchase your own shared rooms. This enables us to functionally receive one registration form per participant. Please do not purchase a private room if you prefer to share a room with another participant. If you are unsure about availability, you can email us at commonground@notsorryproductions.com.

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October 11-14, 2018 • Vanessa Zoltan

Join Common Ground for our first pilgrimage in which we will treat writing as a sacred practice and celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publishing of Little Women. We will gather in prime New England foliage season in Concord, MA to spend three days and nights reading, walking and writing on the hallowed ground where Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott and Hawthorne lived, walked, loved and wrote.

What’s Included

  • 3 nights at Concord Colonial Inn (shared or private room)

  • All meals from dinner on Thursday night through breakfast on Sunday morning

  • Lectures from experts on writing and Little Women

  • Organized small group time and writing exercises

  • One-on-one chaplaincy

  • Admission to Orchard House and excursion to Walden Pond

  • Parking on premises

Please Read! All registrants must read and agree to our Terms & Conditions

Shared Rooming: If you wish to share a room with another person, you will each purchase your own shared rooms. This enables us to functionally receive one registration form per participant. Please do not purchase a private room if you prefer to share a room with another participant. If you are unsure about availability, you can email us at commonground@notsorryproductions.com.

More about this trip

  • We will spend these days asking ourselves one key question; what role do we want writing play in our lives? We will ask this question of ourselves, of each other and of Louisa May Alcott’s classic work of genius, Little Women.

    Each day will include time for writing, discussion, spiritual practices, walks and lectures led by Vanessa Zoltan, co-host of Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. We will gather on Thursday, October 11th in time for dinner and a welcome discussion. On Friday the 12th we will talk, write, practice and walk. On Saturday the 13th we will talk, write, practice and walk. And Sunday morning we will do a final discussion and writing session and end right before lunch at noon.

    This trip will include a visit to Walden Pond and Louisa May Alcott’s former house, Orchard House, where she wrote Little Women. It will also include guest lecturers who will join us and share their expertise. In addition, each day, we will gather for writing workshops, spiritual writing practices, and discussions of craft. We hope you can join us. 

Trip Faculty

Vanessa Zoltan

Faculty Leader (she/her)

Vanessa is the CEO of Not Sorry. She is on three of our podcasts: Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, The Real Question, and Hot & Bothered. She founded Common Ground Pilgrimages in order to travel with brilliant faculty to beautiful places and talk about books with amazing pilgrims. A neat trick she pulled off! She is also the author of the book, Praying with Jane Eyre.

A proud California girl, currently living in MA with her gorgeous blended family, Vanessa was trained as a non-denominational chaplain at Harvard Divinity School. Her Romance novelist pseudonym, if she ever publishes a Romance novel, will be Lorelai Mason.

 

“I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.”

- Jo March, Little Women