/lit/ - Literature

Go to Fort Kent ME. You won't regret it.

>>18444280
Leave

>>18444280
>and visiting the Emily Dickinson museum
Digging up Emily Dickinson.

Forcing an animatronic puppet rig inside Emily Dickinsons unrotted embalmed corpse.

Posing Emily Dickinson like a male model.

>>18444294
Cringe. Bluepilled.

Herman Melville’s country home where he wrote Moby Dick is in western Mass.

>>18444280
Go on a hot day and swim in Walden Pond, it's actually quite large. Try to swim all the way across.

Visit the sea. Go to Massachusetts and then go to Martha's Vineyard. Then, just sit by the sea for hours. Preferably on the West End, but you can go wherever.
>>18444301
This

>>18444280
read on a public bench with a view of the mountains or the rocky coastline.

>>18444280
drive around rural backroads at night while drunk as shit

Can get some dank pork buns and sushi rolls at Longfellow Square

>>18445772
>>18445792
>>18445804
I should've been more specific. I know how to have a fun time/enjoy myself. I'm looking more for any cool sites with some kind of literary connection

Moby Dick is set in New Bedford, Ma.

>>18445830
In that case, I imagine you can do something similar to this in a lot of places, but MA has great used book shops in most cities. Coolidge corner in brookline has a great bookstore called "brookline booksmith" and its also just a great strip in general.

>>18445830
Most shit like that is still closed for covid it seems

>>18445830
Go to Nantucket and visit the Whaling Museum. It's close to where the ferry drops everyone off and right by the bus stops. Can't miss it. Speak to the museum workers and ask for "the white one". They'll bring you to the real Moby Dick.

Visit the Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut. Great whaling and nautical museum with intact ships you can tour and some nice exhibits, right on Long Island Sound. It'll please your autism and women will tolerate it since it's located in a touristy old area w all kinds of shops and restaurants etc. There's an aquarium in Mystic too. If you're gonna be in southern New England this is probably the best place to go. Revolutionary war battlegrounds and related sites can be alright too but I'd say this is the main highlight.
t. CT local

>>18445967
Nantucket's a good option too but it's a pain to get to, you gotta take the ferry and all that

>>18445830
In that case, try visiting Brattle Book Shop in Boston's Downtown area. Alternatively, visit the MFA. The Museum of Fine Arts isn't exactly "literature" but it's probably worth visiting for the exhibits that will certainly connect to literature, and it's the arts, so may as well.
>>18445967
>>18445986
Agreed, Nantucket is a bit of a way's out.

>>18445980
btw there's a fucking massive used bookstore a few miles away from here called the Book Barn that's so big it has a main campus of buildings plus additional buildings off-site. Right on the boardwalk in Niantic, you can spend a whole afternoon there alone. Definitely take a day to go to southeast CT brother

>>18445931
Go to the sailor’s chapel in New Bedford. I was able to get up in the pulpit and read Father Mapple’s sermon years ago.

>>18444280
Lovecraft's grave is in Providence, RI, do with this information as you will

>>18445772
The reddit trip.
>>18444285
A 4chan expedition.

>>18445967
aren't you the anon who browses here who works there? trying to drum up buisness? kek

>>18444280
There are a couple of really nice book stores in Portland, Maine I remember visiting a couple years ago.

>>18447072
The reddit of maine.

Presque Isle > Bangor >>> Portland.

>>18445931
there's a whaling museum there i've always wanted to visit

>>18447491
Museums are gimmicks.

>>18444280
you can go to the wilhelm reich museum in maine and see one of the last remaining cloudbusters

Marguerite Yourcenar’s house in Mount Desert Island, Maine

You could look for Kerouac’s house in Lowell, Mass and probably score some crack or meth

Eugene O’Neill’s Monte Christo house In Connecticut

>>18447501
>William reich
Pseudoscience retard. Cloud busters and orgone energy are reddit pseudoscience.

>>18446597
>the reddit trip
Someone didn't have fun in the vineyard.

>>18444280
boston lit meetup

>>18447515
>>William Reich
getting real tired of this board

>>18447515
then why did the govt destroy his books

>>18448172
lol. this will forever be funny because i am the original OP of that thread. the amount of replies i got ITT was the highest ive ever gotten.

i dont even live in Boston. I live in Connecticut and the photo was some random photo i got off of twitter.

>>18444285
to see the fort?

Surprised no one's mentioned the Frost farm. Can confirm it's supremely comfy.

>>18447496
Yes, museums are where culture goes to die, but there are still plenty of things you can only see in museums. That's what makes them worth visiting.

not particularly lit but climb to the top of mt. tom in the fall and check out all the foliage and little towns n shit

>>18444280

Hiking in non-touristy areas where you can get more solitude.

Visiting the northern part of Maine or the Northeast Kingdom in Vermont.

Going to UVM and pulling your dick out in front of coeds in broad daylight.

read mein kampf

>>18444280
You can climb a mountain that Melville used to hike and get a few of another mountain that looks like a whale, and which helped inspire Moby Dick.

There is a Robert Frost trail with poem plaques in Vermont.

You can go to to Massachusetts rural middle mile and find the inbred monsters of Lovecraft's Dunwich Horror

>>18448787

Ooo, thanks for joggin' my noggin. There are probably sites for both Rudyard Kipling and Solzhenitsyn in VT. Also, St. Johnsbury does Poem Town where community submissions, especially from the academy, are posted on local businesses. Some of them were surprisingly good this year. Also, St. Johnsbury has a banging public library, the Athenaeum.

>>18446019
>Book Barn
Absolutely based. Love this place

Nantucket whaling museum for Moby Dick vibes.

If your a Kurt fan you can travel to barnstable and throughout the Cape where most of his stories take place.

I'd imagine concord mass has some stuff for Emerson.

You can visit the House of the Seven Gables of Nathaniel Hawthorne fame.
https://7gables.org/
I went there a looong time ago, can't recall many details but it was a nice area.
Found this as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wayside

Also Salem in general isn't super lit but does have great and interesting historic vibes. Witches, pirates, natives, settlers.

Kipling’s house is near Brattleboro, VT.

>>18444280
This is site has interesting stuff
https://www.atlasobscura.com/things-to-do/united-states

>>18448747
The wilderness is /lit/ too. Also a bunch of French speakers.

>>18444280
Visit George Berkeley's house, usually has tours given by Professors.

>>18444280
>New York isn't part of New England when Old York is in Old England

>>18449508
YES.

>>18448876
Anyone ever been to the witch museum?

>>18448153
The reddit retort.

>>18450446
Yeah, it was kind of lame. The house tours were slightly more interesting. I'd say you're almost better off just walking around, posting up at a bar, reading a bit, drinking a bit, and then walking around some more.

I want to move to NE and start a bookstore in Mass or Maine (since mass I hear is expensive for retail) because NYC is overpriced and the tristate area and upstate NY aren’t much good either

>>18451000
>The reddit retort.
Someone doesn't have fun on 4chan.

>>18450446
It's a gay animatronic show and a gift shop of harry potter merch. The exhibit is small and timed + guided. Stay away.

>>18451485
You seem rather pissed off at a comment that would otherwise not even receive a response. Probably because a nerve was struck and you are a redditor.

>>18445830
There’s the Mark Twain house in Hartford CT. Giant mansion where Twain once lived. I also live near a place in CT called Russian Village, it was founded by Tolstoy’s son with the dream of creating a Russian expat colony

Ft. Kent seems comfy as fuck.

>>18450446
I used to live down the street, but I never went. PEM and the house of seven gables are cool though

>>18452322
I simply have a personal and emotional connection to Martha's Vineyard, so it bothers me that one would reduce it down to "reddit trip".

>>18452632
What's PEM?

>>18452808
That's precisely what it is. A well traveled destination frequented by the masses, useless pretension and a knick knack and snowglobe falsehood about it. Reddit island, afoot with faggots and tourist traps and only impresses women and the most emasculated of men. 4chan would press north on a real expedition to Fort Kent, something not for the light of heart and if one so wished they continue down the desolate road, eventually into big twenty zone, and could cross the border and make it to Quebec City in a couple hours, the most /lit/ city in the Americas.

>>18453842
you could just call it a tourist trap
which it somewhat is, albeit quite a nice one
because of your saltiness, i suspect that you lack the funds to enjoy yourself at the vineyard
for which i pity you

>>18444280
There are none.

>>18453842
Believe me, I enjoy spending time in the woods of Massachusetts and the mountains in Maine. But that does not make Martha's Vineyard any less enjoyable. I can ignore the kitschy houses and the tourist restaurants and shops because I don't go to MV for those. I go for the sea and the beaches and the air. And while surely there are other places in Massachusetts that I can go to that I don't to take a boat to reach, MV is simply special in a way that other places are not.

>>18453803
Not op but Peabody Essex Museum. Essex street is cozy. Sneed.