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Explore Mary Baker Eddy’s Life Journey This Fall
April 18, 2011
This autumn from September 22-25, travelers on Longyear’s annual Fall Tour will be guided through historic houses and other places of significance as they explore Mary Baker Eddy’s life journey and discover and rediscover important sites in the history of the Christian Science movement. We hope you will join us for this four-day program.
During the trip, Fall Tour participants are invited to study Retrospection and Introspection, Mrs. Eddy's account of her own history, written when she was living in Concord, New Hampshire. Museum staff will present programs that provide important context for the many sites being visited, including the eight Mary Baker Eddy Historic Houses in the Longyear collection.
A 2010 Fall Tour participant said, “[The] tour is a highlight never to be forgotten…It must be true that you can never know all about a place until you have been there…The tour also helped tremendously in creating a mental timeline for Mrs. Eddy’s years.”
In New Hampshire travelers will visit three of the Mary Baker Eddy Historic Houses, the site of Mrs. Eddy's birthplace in Bow, and the site of her home at Pleasant View, in nearby Concord. They will also see historic sites in Tilton, where Mrs. Eddy lived as a teenager and young mother, and will take a guided tour of First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Concord, to which Mrs. Eddy contributed $100,000 toward its construction.
After spending two days in New Hampshire, the motor coach will head south to Massachusetts, where participants will tour five more historic houses; visit Red Rock in Lynn; take a driving tour of Boston's South End, including the site of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College; and attend a Sunday morning service at The Mother Church in Boston. This segment of the trip includes a visit to Mrs. Eddy’s former house in Lynn where visitors will see the results of our major exterior restoration project, scheduled for completion in June 2011.
At the end of the 2010 Fall Tour, one participant said, “This was a most memorable/significant event in my life-study as a Christian Scientist!”
For more information about the experience that awaits you this fall, please download Longyear’s 2011 Fall Tour Registration Form. Please visit the 2010 Fall Tour image gallery for highlights from our 2010 Fall Tour, and if you have questions about this trip, please call 800.277.8943, ext. 275, or send an e-mail to ldistel@longyear.org
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