This afternoon we visited Wayside, a one-time home for the Alcott family, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Sydney. We were given a private tour; the house is not open for the season yet.
The most striking thing about this house is the state of disrepair that it is in. Even though it was home to widely famous authors, the house itself is not receiving the funding it rightly deserves. The house is under the National Park Service’s wing; however, the house welcomes fewer guests in comparison to other Park sites, so it receives less funding.
This house is a national treasure, readers! Let’s band together and create some change. Everybody man the keyboards (or pen and paper) and send a local Congressman a letter to let him or her know some of America’s greatest treasures are in danger. Surely our government representatives would agree that such important historical sites need our help?