If you love books, this is the issue for you! Join our conversation with Robert Gross about his latest book, “The Transcendentalists and Their World” and then delve into “Concord’s Writing Tradition Continues: Alan Lightman and Samantha Power” to learn how a renowned physicist comes to write an illustrated children’s book on the cosmos and what a former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations can teach us about the gulf between ideals and reality. Nathaniel Hawthorne loved winter and now, thanks to “Winter is at Hand: Nathaniel Hawthorne in Winter”, we know why. Learn how the colonists preserved food for winter and discover the new Concord Sign Museum. There’s much more to enjoy in this issue, so grab a cup of tea, curl up by the fire, and enjoy.