Register In the summer of 2014, Lake Erie’s western basin turned a shocking, toxic green—an ecological disaster that threatened the drinking water of nearly 400,000 Ohio residents. How did it happen, and why does the answer lead back to a forgotten landscape most Americans have never heard of? Join author Patrick Wensink on Zoom for […]
Register FREE. Registration required. Limited to 16 participants. Mycologist and author of Fascinating Fungi of New England, Fungipedia, Lawrence Millman, will be the foray leader on a mushroom identification walk in Hapgood-Wright Forest. Scheduled this year to NOT conflict with the Super Bowl, the Super Cup Fungus Foray offers much excitement for those with a sporting spirit. We […]
Register to Attend In-Person In Wildness: Henry David Thoreau and the Making of an American Theology, Lydia Willsky-Ciollo reintroduces Henry David Thoreau as a thinker whose spiritual vision emerged through lived experience of the natural world. From his years after college through his time at Walden Pond, Thoreau developed a theology rooted not in doctrine […]
Spring 2026 Series: Exploring Thoreau’s Essays Together One Thursday per month. One essay per meeting. March 19: A Natural History of Massachusetts Register Other Reading Group sessions: April 16: Moon and Moonlight May 21: A Walk to Wachusett June 18: Slavery in Massachusetts At Thoreau Farm, 341 Virginia Road, Concord, MA 6:00 pm - […]
Spring 2026 Series: Exploring Thoreau’s Essays Together One Thursday per month. One essay per meeting. April 16: Moon and Moonlight Register Other Reading Group sessions: March 19: A Natural History of Massachusetts May 21: A Walk to Wachusett June 18: Slavery in Massachusetts At Thoreau Farm, 341 Virginia Road, Concord, MA 6:00 pm - […]
Spring 2026 Series: Exploring Thoreau’s Essays Together One Thursday per month. One essay per meeting. May 21: A Walk to Wachusett Register Other Reading Group sessions: April 16: Moon and Moonlight March 19: A Natural History of Massachusetts June 18: Slavery in Massachusetts At Thoreau Farm, 341 Virginia Road, Concord, MA 6:00 pm - […]
Spring 2026 Series: Exploring Thoreau’s Essays Together One Thursday per month. One essay per meeting. June 18: Slavery in Massachusetts Register Other Reading Group sessions: April 16: Moon and Moonlight March 19: A Natural History of Massachusetts May 21: A Walk to Wachusett At Thoreau Farm, 341 Virginia Road, Concord, MA 6:00 pm - […]
Living Well: Thoreau, Health, and Flourishing “Nature is but another name for health,” Thoreau wrote in “Huckleberries,” an essay he left unpublished at his death at age 44 from tuberculosis. Thoreau celebrated health even as he battled his final illness. He found ways to flourish in spite of a body, and a society, that was […]