Experts include presenter, James H. Bride, Professors Lawrence Buell, Joel Myerson and Wes Mott, and biographers Robert Richardson and Joan Van Mehren. The New England Transcendentalist program was filmed at many Massachusetts Transcendentalist venues including: Concord, Brook Farm, Walden Pond, Boston and Cape Cod. Most importantly the content is explained and interpreted in a most meaningful and evocative manner to make any viewer come to understand the significance and substance of these major New England writers. (27 minutes, color)