WITH A RELATIONSHIP TO THE TRUSTEES PROPERTIES.
115 SPECIAL PLACES AND 125 YEARS FROM PARKLANDS AND FARMS TO FORESTS, RIVERS, MEADOWS, AND BEACHES.
>> PEOPLE KNOW US FOR THE BEACH, BUT WE ARE KNOWN MORE FOR OUR NATIONAL LANDSCAPES.
WE ARE OVER 25,000 ACRES, MUCH OF IT NATURAL.
WE STARTED PROTECTED -- PROTECTING HOUSES AND GARDENS.
WE INVESTED $12 MILLION IN CULTURAL LANDMARKS AND SEEN VISITATION EXPLODE.
>> WELCOME TO THE MOST INTERESTING HISTORIC HOUSE IN AMERICA.
WE HAVE SUCH A CAST O STARS, IT IS AMAZING.
ANTHONY: AMAZING SAY TOM, BECAUSE THIS HOUSE LOOKS SO MUCH LIKE ITS NEIGHBORS YOU COULD ALMOST MISS IT.
TOM: ON PEOPLE, MONUMENT STREET NHC AND 18TH-CENTURY LANDSCAPE.
-- AND STACY AN -- THEY SEE AN 18TH-CENTURY LANDSCAPE.
THIS HOUSE REMAINED IN THE EMERSON FAMILY UNTIL 1939 WHEN IT WAS TRANSFERRED.
EVERYTHING YOU SEE WAS HANDED DOWN.
TOM: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ASK THE QUESTION, IS THAT ORIGINAL?
THIS IS THE TABLE WHERE HE HAD HIS BREAKFAST IN 1833 BEFORE HE WENT UP TO HIS OFFICE.
ANTHONY: HE SAYS IT WAS IF HE HAD WON THE LOTTERY.
THE FORMER HISTORY TEACHER FEELS RIGHT AT HOME.
TOM: WITH SO MAN LAWYERS AND 100 50 YARDS AWAY WE HAVE WHERE THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BEGAN.
ANTHONY: A SUBJECT HE HAS FUN WITH.
TOM: IT WAS A COMPLEX WAR, CALLED A CIVIL WAR WHEN I WAS TAUGHT IT.
ANTHON ETCHED OUR POEMS WRITTEN BY NATHANIEL AND SOPHIA HAWTHORNE, AND HIS "MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANTE" IS HOW THE HOUSE GOT ITS NAME.
TOM: IT IS AN OLD SCOTTISH WORD FOR MINISTERS HOUSE.
ANTHONY: CRAFTED BY THE NORTH BENNET STREET SCHOOL, THIS IS A REPLICA OF THE CHAIR IN WHICH EMERSON WROTE HIS GROUNDBREAKING ESSAY, "NATURE." WE WILL ALLOW PEOPLE TO SIT IN
IT, LOOKING AT THE OLD NORTHBRIDGE AND THE LANDSCAPE THAT INSPIRED RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
>> HERE IS A PICTURE WHERE WE ARE ON THE ROCK.
ANTHONY: VICTORIA’ FAMILY SCRAPBOOK IS A TOUR OF SPECIAL PLACES.
>> BARTHOLOMEW’S KABUL, BUT WE WALKED AROUND THERE IN THE BERKSHIRES, IT WAS BEAUTIFUL.
ANTHON FAMILY OUTINGS LED BY CORBIN -- GORDON ABBOTT, WHO BECAME THE DIRECTOR.
>> HE HAD BEEN A NEWSPAPER EDITOR AND HAD WORKED FOR THE " GLOUCESTER TIMES" AND "BEVERLY TIMES.
THE TELLING STORY PART CAME OUT WHEN HE CAME TO THE PROPERTIES AND BEGAN TO WRITE PAMPHLETS TO TRY AND ENGAGE PEOPLE COMING WITH THEM.
ANTHONY: HE INTRODUCED MEMBERSHIP AND REVELED IN DISCOVERING NEW PACE -- PLACES INCLUDING WORLDS AND.
>> HE WOULD DEVELOP FRIENDSHIPS AND HELP THEM LAND THEIR LEGACIES OF THEIR LAND WITH AN ORGANIZATION THAT HE LOVED.
HERE WE HAVE PICTURES OF APPLETON FARM.
IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL FALL DAY, AND THEN COMING BACK TO THEIR PARLOR FOR TEA, WHICH, FOR AN 11-YEAR-OLD, THAT WAS EXCITING.
NOW TO KNOW THAT THAT WAS SOME OF THE CONVERSATION THAT LED TO THEM BEQUEATHING THE LAND UPON MYSTICAL APPLE -- MR.
APPLETONTON -- APPLETON’S DEATH.
MY FATHER LOVED THE OUTDOORS AND I SHARE THAT WITH HIM.
ANTHONY: SHE SHARES HIS GIFT FOR STORYTELLING AS A WIDELY PUBLISHED FOOD AND TRAVEL WRITER.
THEY INCLUDE THE TRUSTEE PROPERTIES SHE TOOK FOR GRANTED AS A CHILD.
>> IT WAS NOT UNTIL I GOT A DOG, TWO YEARS AGO THAT I STARTED TO CONNECT IN A PERSONAL WAY, NOT JUST THROUGH MY FATHER.
I DISCOVERED ALL THESE DIFFERENT PLACES THAT SUDDENLY CAME ALIVE AND HAD MEANING TO ME.
HE ABSOLUTELY INSTILLED THE DESIRE TO BE OUTSIDE AND THE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF OUR ENVIRONMENT.
ANTHON THE TRUSTEES IS NOT ONLY THE NATION’ FIRST CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION ORGANIZATION, IT WAS AN INSPIRATION FOR THE BRITISH NATIONAL TRUST FOUNDED THREE
YEARS LATER.
COMI UP, WHAT DID THEY LEAVE BEHIND?
A LOOK INSIDE THE CLOSETS OF TRUSTEES DONORS.
>> A PARIS ORIGINAL AND A SAMURAI SUIT FROM JOHN COOLIDGE'