An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving

Published: Nov. 16, 2020, 7 a.m.

We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we\u2019ll read \u201cAn Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving\u201d, written by Louisa May Alcott after she wrote The Little Women trilogy. It\u2019s a simple story set in the early 1800s, featuring a country family in New Hampshire. It\u2019s full of idyllic and peaceful descriptions from an earlier time. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to\xa0snoozecast.com/plus.\n\nAlcott was an American writer, raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents. She grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.\n\n\u2014 read by 'V' \u2014\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices