Step inside the Old Manse after dark, Friday, Oct. 24, 2025, with timed tickets. It’s a rare, intimate experience through the rooms where history was lived – and still lingers. This is not a haunted house. This is something older, quieter, and more unsettling. Guided by candlelight, you’ll move room by room through the 18th-century home once occupied by Revolutionaries, philosophers, and writers like Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne. Along the way, you’ll hear true stories pulled from letters, journals, and the etched words left behind – literally – on the windows and walls