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SUMMARY:Talk with the Experts: A Panel Discussion about the Thoreau Documentary
DESCRIPTION:Register to Attend in Person \nThis program will also be available streaming online.  Register to Attend Virtually\n  \nJoin leading Thoreau scholars featured in the new documentary for a free public webinar exploring the documentary. \nIn this lively conversation\, the experts who helped shape the film will reflect on the themes introduced in the opening episode\, discuss the historical context surrounding Henry David Thoreau\, and share additional insights from the making of the documentary. This is an opportunity to hear directly from the scholars who appear in the film as they unpack the ideas\, landscapes\, and questions that frame the series. \nRebecca Kneale Gould\, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Middlebury College\, and a former member of the Thoreau Society Board of Directors. \nRochelle Johnson\, Professor of Environmental Studies and Bernie McCain Chair in Humanities at the College of Idaho\, and former president of the Thoreau Society Board of Directors. \nElise Lemire\, Professor of Literature at Purchase College ( State University of New York)\, and the author of three books about race and memory in the United States\, including Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord\, Massachusetts\,  and Battle Green Vietnam: The 1971 March on Concord\, Lexington\, and Boston. \nThe conversation will include time for audience questions. \nFree and open to the public. Registration required. \n  \nPresented in partnership with the Concord Free Public Library.  \nKen Burns presents Henry David Thoreau\, a film by Erik Ewers and Christopher Loren Ewers premieres on PBS on March 30 (Episodes 1 and 2) and March 31\, 2026\, at 9:00 p.m. ET (check local listings).
URL:https://www.thoreaualliance.org/event/talk-with-the-experts-a-panel-discussion-about-the-thoreau-documentary-2/
LOCATION:Concord Free Public Library\, 129 Main Street\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
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SUMMARY:Thoreau Documentary: Talk with the Experts
DESCRIPTION:Register\nJoin leading Thoreau scholars featured in the new documentary for a free public webinar exploring the documentary. \nIn this lively conversation\, the experts who helped shape the film will reflect on the themes introduced in the opening episode\, discuss the historical context surrounding Henry David Thoreau\, and share additional insights from the making of the documentary. This is an opportunity to hear directly from the scholars who appear in the film as they unpack the ideas\, landscapes\, and questions that frame the series. \nThe conversation will include time for audience questions. \nFree and open to the public. Registration required. \nKen Burns presents Henry David Thoreau\, a film by Erik Ewers and Christopher Loren Ewers premieres on PBS on March 30 (Episodes 1 and 2) and March 31\, 2026\, at 9:00 p.m. ET (check local listings).
URL:https://www.thoreaualliance.org/event/doc-talk-june14/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Thoreau Prize Honoring Ross Gay
DESCRIPTION:Register to Attend \n  \n \nThe Thoreau Alliance announces that Ross Gay is the winner of the 2026 Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence in Nature Writing. \nOn June 14\, 2026\, Gay will appear in Concord\, Massachusetts\, to accept the Thoreau Prize and deliver an address at the Trinitarian Congregational (TriCon) Church on Walden Street. \nThrough his writing\, Ross Gay reminds us to notice the small wonders of life\, to approach the world with curiosity\, and to find delight in the ordinary—expanding what we think of as nature writing in ways that are both tender\, insightful\, and exuberant. \nHe is the author of four books of poetry—Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding\, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude\, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His three essay collections—The Book of Delights (2019)\, Inciting Joy (2022)\, and The Book of (More) Delights (2023)—invite readers into the attentive\, joyful world he so thoughtfully renders. \nIn doing so\, he shows that gratitude\, curiosity\, and delight are themselves a way of being fully present—a sensibility that echoes Thoreau’s attentiveness to nature\, his reverence for the small details of daily life\, and his belief that wonder is essential to living well. \nThe Thoreau Prize\, established in 2010 by nature writer Dale Peterson and administered by the Thoreau Society (now the Thoreau Alliance) since 2020\, is awarded annually to a writer who\, like Henry David Thoreau\, speaks for nature with insight\, eloquence\, and ethical depth. Past recipients include Jane Goodall\, Drew Lanham\, Mary Oliver\, and Robin Wall Kimmerer. \n  \nBook Sale & Signing to Follow \n\n  \nThis program is free for students and educators. Contact info@thoreaualliance.org to register. \nFree live-streaming access to the program will be available here: https://www.youtube.com/@TriConChurch/streams  (No registration required.) \nThe Thoreau Alliance does not exclude anyone because of the inability to pay. Please contact rebecca@thoreaualliance.org to request reduced rates. \n  \nFind Ross Gay’s books at the Shop at Walden Pond:
URL:https://www.thoreaualliance.org/event/thoreau-prize-honoring-ross-gay/
LOCATION:Thoreau Farm\, 341 Virginia Road\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
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SUMMARY:Thoreau Farm Reading Group: "Slavery in Massachusetts"
DESCRIPTION:Spring 2026 Series: Exploring Thoreau’s Essays Together \nOne Thursday per month. One essay per meeting.  \nJune 18: Slavery in Massachusetts\n\n Register\n\nOther Reading Group sessions:\nApril 16: Night and Moonlight\nMarch 19: A Natural History of Massachusetts\nMay 28: A Walk to Wachusett\n  \nAt Thoreau Farm\, 341 Virginia Road\, Concord\, MA\n6:00 pm – light refreshments\, socializing (and reading the essay\, if you haven’t yet)\n7:00 pm – lively discussion\n \nFREE (suggested donation: $5/session) \nRegistration encouraged\, drop-ins welcome. Essays will be provided digitally to registered participants and some printed copies will be available on-site during the events. \nJoin us at Thoreau Farm for a new monthly reading group exploring the essays of Henry David Thoreau—works originally delivered as public lectures and still deeply relevant today. Each session will center on a selected essay\, inviting lively conversation around Thoreau’s views on nature\, society\, and moral responsibility.  \nThis informal\, community-focused series welcomes readers of all backgrounds—no prior experience with Thoreau necessary. Come each month or drop in as you’re able. Readings will be drawn from The Essays of Henry David Thoreau\, edited by Lewis Hyde\, who may join us for select sessions. \nDiscussions will be led by Richard Smith and Amity Wilczek.  \nDr. Amity Wilczek is an evolutionary ecologist whose role as an educator and researcher has been shaped by attention to place\, history\, and student experience. Her teaching career started at Harvard and Brown before transitioning to Deep Springs College\, where over 10 years she served as Herbert Reich Chair of Natural Sciences\, Academic Dean\, and Vice President. Many of the courses she has offered feature Thoreau’s writings. Her research on plant responses to changing environments has appeared in Science\, Ecology\, and many other journals. Amity currently lives in Concord\, Massachusetts and saunters in Thoreau country at every opportunity. \nRichard Smith is a Public Historian in Concord\, Massachusetts and has been portraying Henry Thoreau for over 20 years. While he spends most of his time (as Thoreau) at Walden Pond\, he also travels a great deal\, and has performed as Thoreau across the country and in Canada. In addition\, Richard has written eleven books (including two about Thoreau) for Applewood Books. \nLet’s walk together through Thoreau’s words and ideas—deliberately and in good company. \n 
URL:https://www.thoreaualliance.org/event/reading-group-june2026/
LOCATION:Thoreau Farm\, 341 Virginia Road\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
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SUMMARY:85th Thoreau Society Annual Gathering
DESCRIPTION:“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 anything but well. In our own time\, when civic and natural ailments are both chronic and acute\, what can Thoreau\, and his time\, show us about the conditions that promote flourishing—physical\, mental\, spiritual\, social\, ecological—as well as the conditions that hinder or prevent it? How can we be well in a troubled world? How can we live well in troubled times? For the 2026 Annual Gathering\, we will explore some of the many aspects of health in Thoreau’s world and ours. \n  \n Learn More\n Register\n Read the Preliminary Program\n 
URL:https://www.thoreaualliance.org/event/85th-ag/
LOCATION:Trinity Episcopal Church\, 81 Elm Street\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
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