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"Sketches from Concord and Appledore" and have been written with the aid of American author and pupil Frank Preston Stearns. The book is an interesting investigate the highbrow and cultural lifestyles of two remarkable locations: Concord and Appledore. People recognize Stearns for his eager observations and historic insights. In this book, he shows readers bright snapshots of Concord, Massachusetts, which was a center of intellectual sports at some stage in the transcendentalist movement. In his essays, he receives the spirit of the city by way of looking into its literary records, it¿s thrilling humans, and the paintings of philosophers like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. The collection also takes readers to Appledore Island, which is part of the Isles of Shoals and is nonviolent. It is off the coast of New Hampshire. Stearns paints a brilliant photo of this lovely region, searching at both its natural beauty and the artistic community that grew there. The articles provide thoughts on how the island affected amazing writers and artists who went there to discover idea in its peaceful setting. "Sketches from Concord and Appledore" is an essential piece of American highbrow records as it combines Stearns' know-how of the beyond together with his writing talent, which brings these two critical places to life for readers.
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Frank Preston Stearns was a writer and abolitionist from Massachusetts in the 1800s. He was born in 1846 and died in 1917. His father was the abolitionist George Luther Stearns. He worked with Elizur Wright on ambitious anti-slavery projects like the American Anti-Slavery Society. He is also known for writing important books about the lives and careers of famous American authors and public figures, such as The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Life of Prince Otto von Bismarck, and The Life and Public Services of George Luther Stearns. The 4th of January 1846 saw the birth of Frank Preston Stearns in Medford, Massachusetts. On September 28, 1898, he married Emilia Maciel. They had one child after the wedding. He died in Arlington, Massachusetts, on January 21, 1917, from a brain bleed.
