Louisa
May ALCOTT
Author of the most successful young adult
novel of all time.
Phineas
T BARNUM
Creator of "the Greatest Show on Earth."
Calvin
COOLIDGE
Popular 30th president of the USA, from
a tiny Vermont village.
Emily
DICKINSON
Reclusive poet, "the belle of Amherst (Massachusetts)."
Ralph
Waldo EMERSON
America's first great philosopher and man
of letters.
Daniel
Chester FRENCH
Renowned sculptor of the "Seated
Lincoln" in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington,
and many other
works.
John
Hays HAMMOND, Jr
The electrical engineer
who invented radio remote control, radar
and sonar, built himself a fantasy
medieval castle home near Gloucester MA. It's now
a quirky, fascinating museum.
Nathaniel
HAWTHORNE
He established the American short story
as an art form.
Winslow
HOMER
Outstanding American painter.
Julia
Ward HOWE
Author of Battle Hymn of
the Republic
and tireless fighter for women's rights
and the abolition of slavery.
John
F KENNEDY
35th president of the USA who enjoyed worldwide
popularity.
Henry Wadsworth
LONGFELLOW
The famous mid-19th-century poet
made Paul Revere and
Hiawatha famous.
MASSASOIT
Chief of the Wampanoags, he befriended
the Pilgrims of Plymouth, making the
success of their colony possible.
Frederick
Law OLMSTED
America's premier landscape architect,
he turned nature into art in New
York City's
Central Park, Boston's Emerald
Necklace of parks,
and many other places.
Paul
REVERE
Silversmith and patriot, his "midnight
ride" to warn his countryman of a British
advance was immortalized in a poem
by Longfellow.
Harriet
Beecher STOWE
Mother of six, tireless worker for the
abolition of slavery and author of
the 19th-century runaway best-seller Uncle
Tom's Cabin, she also fought for
temperance and women's suffrage.
Henry
David THOREAU
Writer, individualist and spiritual
philosopher, he laid the foundations for
conservation
and
ecology in 19th-century America.
Noah
WEBSTER
America's first lexicographer wrote a 70,000-word
dictionary that sold 300,000 copies,
and a spelling book that sold over a
million copies—in a country of
only 23 million people!
