Online Concord Holiday Shopping
Shamelessly Promoting Local Products that Benefit this Website
One of the things we love the best about "modern life" is not having to leave home to shop -- yet still supporting local businesses such as artists, writers, merchants, and so on.
This holiday season, we are promoting online shopping that both supports Concord businesses and organizations, as well as this website, the latter of which has been providing this ezine free to the public for nearly a decade.
Fine Photography and "Stuff" with Beautiful Concord Images
While CafePress.com isn't local (at least not local to us!), all of the images on their Concord, Massachusetts offers are. They are the work of Concordian and photographer Richard Stevenson. His beautiful images have graced ConcordMA.com since 1995. (In his "other" life, he is married to the publisher of this website -- heaven help him! -- so we do have an inside track to him.)
The photographs on this page and on the front cover of this edition are just some of the images available in a variety of media through CafePress, whom we have been pleased to be doing business with for the past several years. Choose from framed and unframed photographs, clothing (t-shirts, hats, bags, even underwear -- for adults, children, babies... and even the family dog!), calendars and cards, keepsakes (such as teddy bears, Christmas ornaments, clocks), and items for the home or office (for example: mugs, mousepads, aprons). Proceeds from these sales help support this website.
One-of-a-Kind Jewelry Handcrafted in Concord
In her copious spare time, the publisher of ConcordMA.com handcrafts jewelry. You can find her offerings at local fairs, as well as online. See some of her available work on her Etsy website (click here). If you don't already know Etsy, do take a look around because it's all about hand-crafted -- and often one-of-a-kind -- artwork typically sold directly by the artists themselves. Proceeds from these sales also help support this website.
Some of Our Favorite New Books on Local Subjects
Below are some Concord-related titles published in the last 18 months or so. You may be struck -- as we were -- to see just how many new books about Concord there are. Click on the linked titles below to find out more about these titles, or to purchase them from Amazon.com. Proceeds from purchases made using these links help support this website. (Thank you!)
- In History's Embrace: Past and Present in Concord, Massachusetts
by longtime Concord Magazine contributor Leslie Perrin Wilson
- Concord and the Dawn of Revolution: The Hidden Truths by another longtime Ezine, contributor D. Michael Ryan
- Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
by John Matteson
- American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work by Susan Cheever
- The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
by Megan Marshall
- Mr. Emerson's Wife by Amy Belding Brown
- Miss Alcott's E-mail: Yours for Reforms of All Kinds by Kit Bakke
- The Concord Quartet: Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Friendship That Freed the American Mind by Samuel A. Schreiner Jr.
- I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau by Henry D. Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (Editor)
- A Journey into the Transcendentalists' New England by R. Todd Felton
- American Transcendentalism: A History by Philip F. Gura
- To Set the World Right: The Anitslavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord
by Sandra Harbert Petrulionis
- Notes of Conversations, 1848-1875: Amos Bronson Alcott by Amos B. Alcott, Karen English (Editor)
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