Transcendentalists--Lydia Maria Child

Lydia Maria Child!

Never heard of her?

.

I guarantee you know her most famous poem! You"re gonna like this lady, I think...

Transcendentalist...Unitarian...abolitionist...Indian rights advocate...poet...essayist...editor of the first American magazine for children called Juvenile Miscellany. (link here to read her story, The Magician's Show Box, on Project Gutenberg)

The Big Room kids liked my suggestion that we e-publish our own Juvenile Miscellany.

I now have even more incentive to create a Big Room Web site...and we can put our miscellany there! Just give me a couple weeks to figure that one out. I for one will miss the UU and Me section in the center of the UU World mag. All the more reason to start up our own!

It was Maria's book, An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans

which convinced many, including Dr. Wm. Ellery Channing to speak out against slavery. It also made her unpopular in the 1830s with some of the Boston crowd.

So, that poem you know???

Think about a Thanksgiving day sleigh ride over the Mystic River and through the woods to grandmother's house...

this house