Learn more about the Alcotts from the Annual Summer Conversational Series at Orchard House

Progressive educator and transcendental philosopher Bronson Alcott realized his dream for adult education on July 12, 1880, with the establishment of his School of Philosophy, built on the grounds of Orchard House, his longtime family home. Today, Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House continues the tradition by hosting the Summer Conversational Series each year during the …