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54 • LMGI COMPASS | Winter 2020 a little too diffi cult to fi lm in, but we managed to fi lm the school house on the property. Louisa's father built it, and it's almost per- fectly preserved. It's amazing to feel the history and to know these characters we're recreating had actually been in that space." "Many people are now visiting Orchard House after hearing about the new fi lm," says Turnquist, Executive Director of Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House, where Little Women was written and set and where Alcott and her family lived for 20 years. "Some- times we've welcomed over 300 people a day. Little Women has never been out of print and is beloved around the world, having been translated into over 50 languages." Also helping drive at- tendance is a 27-minute documentary, Orchard House: Home of Little Women, which ran on PBS in May 2018. Turnquist wrote, directed and co-executive produced the short fi lm. A few months ago, it won an Emmy for Outstanding Historical/Cultural Pro- gram/Special at the Boston/New England Emmy Awards. Turnquist was impressed with the laser focus of both Dresser and production designer Jess Gonchor. "They wanted every- thing as authentic as possible, down to exact paint colors," she says. "I drove around Concord with them looking at locations. They couldn't use Orchard House with so many of the Alcotts' be- longings inside, so they wanted to fi nd a place to build an exact rep- lica of Orchard House. They need- ed a location with a lot of land and a grand-looking house that could represent the wealthy next-door neighbors. They had done a great deal of research and still asked me so many questions. Ultimately, they built an exact replica of Orchard House on private property with just the right grand house on it. When I saw their Orchard House replica, I was awestruck. It was per- fect!" FROM THE COEN BROTHERS TO LITTLE WOMEN Little Women is Gonchor's fi rst ex- perience with historical fi ction. Best known for his production de- sign work with the Coen Brothers on such fi lms as No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, he says, "I wanted to try something new. It was extremely motivating because of the cast (Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Laura Dern, Timothée Chalamet, Tracy Letts, Bob Oden- kirk and Meryl Streep, plus Oscar- nominated director Gerwig). Rarely, if ever, do I get to shoot where the story actually took place. We had a lot of historically correct houses, architecture and museums to help bring the movie to life. We fi lmed in a lot of intact locations. What really helped was that I was living in Lexington, near Concord, where the story took place, in a Colonial house built in the 1700s." Dresser had a similar experience. "I lived in Concord in an apartment above a barn that was built in the 1820s," he says, "behind a house that was built in the 1700s. Living and working in that environment helped embed a sense of history, joy and art." A5 A2 A4 D1 D2 D3 D4 C1 C2 C3 C4 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 Concord Harvard Boston Framingham Needham Needham Needham Dedham Dedham Dedham Quincy Quincy Quincy Weymouth Weymouth Weymouth Weymouth Weymouth Norwell Scituate Marshfield Duxbury Kingston Kingston Kingston Rockland Rockland Brockton Bridgewater East Bridgewater Mansfield Mansfield Mansfield Mansfield Mansfield Walpole Raynham Raynham Raynham Attleboro Franklin Milford Upford Hopkinton Uxbridge Grafton Worcester Shrewsbury Marlborough Marlborough Marlborough Hudson Hudson Hudson Clinton Sudbury Maynard Carlisle Medford Woburn Lynn Reading Reading Reading North Reading North Reading North Reading Beverly Peabody Topsfield Gloucester Gloucester Rowley Billerica Chelmsford Lowell Dracut Pepperell Fitchburg Leominster Groton A5 Lawrence A4 Ipswich A6 Waltham A3 Stoughton A2 Canton A1 A1 Bradley Estate Canton, MA 02021 A2 Stoughton Train Station Stoughton, MA A3 Lyman Estate Waltham, MA A4 City of Lawrence Lawrence, MA A5 Gibbet Hill Groton, MA A6 Crane Estate Ipswich, MA B1 Arnold Arboretum Boston, MA B2 Colonial Theatre Boston, MA B3 Gibson House Museum Boston, MA B4 Prescott House Boston, MA B5 Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel Boston, MA C1 Old Manse Concord, MA C2 Orchard House Concord, MA C3 Town of Concord Concord, MA C4 Minuteman Historical Park Concord, MA D1 Harvard General Store Harvard, MA D2 Harvard Town Hall Harvard, MA D3 Harvard Universalist Unitarian Church Harvard, MA D4 Fruitlands Museum House Harvard, MA