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Oct/Nov '99
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About This Issue
By The Staff of the Concord Magazine. Special notes about this issue's autumnal splendor.

A Stone Pyramid in the Concord Woods
By Peter Waksman. Our local woods show proof of sacred use from both prehistory and modern times.

Colonial Phrase to Modern Idiom: It's Pot Luck
By D. Michael Ryan. The original meanings of "flash in the pan, " "at loggerheads," and "a wind fall" and other expressions from Colonial times.

Elizabeth Peabody's Views on Language and History
By Leslie Perrin Wilson. A deeper look at Miss Peabody's Transcendentalist philosophy. Part 3 of a 3-part series.

Letters to the Editor
From our electronic mailbag: How to get your own Concord fall leaves; orchids again; visitors salute Concord...more.

Civil War Letter
By Samuel Hoar. A Concord soldier writes evocatively about camp life in Louisiana

Special Y2K Section

More Y2K Preparations: Keeping Food Cool
By Ginger Allison. The root cellars and cold rooms of earlier times are a practical way to put food by for the winter...plus, a word from a famous resident at Walden about his own root cellar.

Preparing Kids for Emergencies
By Pantry Patty. This Concord mom helps ease children's concerns about emergencies, recommending a combination of talk and action with kids of all ages.

Individual and Family Emergency Preparedness Guide
Compiled by Concord Citizens Y2K. Lots of helpful, practical info about preparing for any emergency; this short guide is being distributed all over town.


Thoreau Almanac
Another installment of this monthly feature: a quote from Walden and a Concord scene, both appropriate to the season.




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