The story of Louisa May Alcott, and a deep dive into the Pacific Ocean

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The story of Louisa May Alcott, and a deep dive into the Pacific Ocean

Our first Passport Pick this week is Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind ‘Little Women’ presented by American Masters. Louisa May Alcott’s reputation as a morally upstanding spinster, reflecting the conventional propriety of late 19th Century Concord, is firmly established. However, raised among reformers, the intellectual protege of Emerson and Hawthorne and Thoreau, Alcott was actually a free thinker, with democratic ideals and progressive val…