On July 9, 1842, a small wedding took place at the bookstore of Elizabeth Peabody at 13 West Street in Boston. After a highly secretive three-year engagement, 38-year-old struggling novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne married 33-year-old Sophia Amelia Peabody, the younger sister of the bookstore owner.
Join the New England Poetry Club, bringing poets and readers together for over 100 years. Under the tent at The Old Manse Museum. Featured poets will be Mary Bonina, Patty Crane, and Thomas Olivieri.