From the official press release:
(Concord, MA) This fall will be a busy one in Concord at Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House. Orchard House is most noted for being home to the talented Alcott family, and as the place where Louisa May Alcott wrote andset her beloved classic novel, Little Women. But, the house is also rich in history dating all the way back to the 1600’s. To enhance their mission of sharing this history, the house is embarking on a documentary film project.
To fund this project Orchard House hopes to raise at least $150,000 by running a Kickstarter
funding campaign, which officially launches on September 17th.
Watch a preview video here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/632439913/orchard-house/widget/video.html
Tremendous legacy
Orchard House is one of the oldest, most authentically-preserved historic house museums in America, and brings the Alcott legacy in the fields of literature, art, education, philosophy, and social justice to life every day.
Unique tour experience
Named Best Literary House in New England by Yankee Magazine this June, Orchard House offers highly acclaimed tours, unique living history events, curriculum-based educational programs, and irreplaceable original family furnishings and archives. Annually, more than 50,000 visitors from all walks of life and every corner of the globe experience Orchard House — and discover what it means to be ‘home’.
A chance to share stories
“We’re so delighted to begin this project” says executive director Jan Turnquist, “there are many stories to be told about Orchard House. While we won’t have the time to tell all of them, the documentary will certainly be a positive tool for us to share many of them and to engage generations of supports – old and new – from around the world.”
First time on film
The history of the house, its inhabitants, and supporters have not been the subject of a documentary before. Once made, the film will offer highlights from each period of the house’s more than 300 year history and feature interviews with celebrity supporters of the house, such as Annie Leibovitz and John Matteson. Along with executive director Turnquist, the Orchard House Board of Directors and its many dedicated staff and volunteers are looking forward to this opportunity for progressive outreach.
For more information on
Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House:
Executive Director, Jan Turnquist jturnquist@louisamayalcott.org
Louisa May Alcott House Orchard House
399 Lexington Road
Concord, Massachusetts 01742
www.louisamayalcott.org
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/632439913/orchard-house
Louisa May Alcott is My Passion 