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After meeting while attending Bowdoin College, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Franklin Pierce became lifelong friends. When Pierce became the 14th President of the United States (1853-57) he appointed Hawthorne to what role? a) Secretary of State b) U.S. Consul to Liverpool c) Lead speechwriter d) Ambassador to Italy e) Chief Minister of Puritan Justice
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An accidental massive harvest. Have you ever planted too much of something in the garden? While living at Walden Pond, in a nearby field, Henry David Thoreau grew a particular crop “the length of whose rows, added together, was seven miles….” Why he grew this massive crop was a mystery, even to Henry who wrote in Walden, “But why should I raise them? Only Heaven knows.” What was he growing? a) Apples b) Beans c) Hemp d) Huckleberries e) Sweet corn
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Concord’s statue of the minuteman farmer stands overlooking the North Bridge where the April 19, 1775, battle occurred between the King’s troops and colonists. Made by Concord resident and sculptor Daniel Chester French, the statue depicts a minuteman farmer leaving his field and, musket in hand, heading to battle. The statue was formally unveiled on the April 19, 1875, centennial of the Battle of Concord and has since been a symbol for which of the following: a) Women’s suffrage b) The United States National Guard c) The Air National Guard 62
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Flint knapping is: a) Stealing someone else’s musket b) Priming a musket to fire c) Making stone tools d) Letting flat bread rest after baking to harden
Before Concord’s downtown Main Street existed, the stretch of road now lined with shops had been used by the Pennacook tribe as a: a) Fishing weir b) Trading post c) Flint knapping factory d) Large apple orchard
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“Leaf peeping” is a common fall activity in New England. Which 19th century Concord author noted that “Europeans coming to America are surprised by the brilliancy of our autumnal foliage” and observed that “[t]he autumnal change of our woods has not made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.” a) Louisa May Alcott b) Ralph Waldo Emerson c) Nathaniel Hawthorne d) Margret Lothrop e) Henry David Thoreau
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In August of 1842, while living at the Old Manse in Concord, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote in his journal that doing something was “like nursing and educating another person’s children.” Was he referring to: a) Editing and reviewing someone else’s work b) Re-writing a draft for his editor c) Cleaning the home he was renting from the Emerson family d) Tending his garden
“I’m walking here!” If you were in mid19th century Concord and saw a horse in a field walking on a treadmill you weren’t hallucinating; you were witnessing a horse doing which of the following: a) Training for a race b) Remaining fit to compete with newly arising locomotives c) Powering a threshing machine d) Breaking in new horseshoes
Upon moving to the New World, the first colonist settlers in Concord were introduced to pumpkins. A Native American food staple, the colonists originally called pumpkins which of the following names? a) Orange Bowl b) Rondegourd c) Pumpion d) Jacquovine and bonus question: Are pumpkins considered a fruit or a vegetable? If you want to get ready for Halloween by reading a story featuring sentient gingerbread slaves, volcano ovens, and resurrection funerals for sugar-people, you should read a story by which author? a) Louisa May Alcott b) Nathaniel Hawthorne c) Margaret Lothrop d) Edgar Allan Poe
