I am taking a course at Lipscomb in their Life Long Learning series about the writers who converged on Concord, MA in the 1800's: Alcott, Thoreau, Emerson, Hawthorne, and Fuller. The first class, taught by Dr. Dennis Loyd, was very good and confirmed what I had been reading in Susan Cheever's American Bloomsbury.
What brought all of these writers and other lesser known ones to this little town of less than 3, 000 in that time? I had never heard the term "genius clusters" but that is certainly what it was. I guess you could also called the convergence of Jefferson, Washington, Hamilton, Franklin, Adams,etc. during the Revolutionary years also a genius cluster. Look what they wrought!
Wow, don't we need a genius cluster today to free us from all the messes of contemporary America! And contemporary religion could use a cluster too. Where are they?
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