| August 28, 2004 |
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Hawthorne: Bicentennial Exhibition
"We  understand that Mrs. Dike, with that coolness and intrepidity which have ever distinguished her, did most valourously attack and destroy two enormous and horrific striped serpents...This is true courage." So wrote a young Nathaniel Hawthorne. Decades before he penned The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne displayed his wit in a self-published weekly called The Spectator. On the bicentennial of the author's birth, the Peabody Essex Museum pays tribute to this American original with a bit of Flash and fanfare. Hear in Hawthorne's own words how he labored alone to produce his missives. Zoom in on his hand-written pages, then explore the room where he penned his classic tale of adultery, and read the review of his first novel by Edgar Allen Poe. This site gets an "A" for its handsomely crafted homage to a homegrown icon. (in Literature > Authors) |
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