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SUMMARY:The Cure at Walden Pond: Author Thomas Moore in Conversation with Richard Higgins
DESCRIPTION:Register\n\nJoin bestselling author\, psychotherapist\, and public thinker Thomas Moore for a conversation about his newest book\, The Cure at Walden Pond\, with author Richard Higgins. Drawing inspiration from Henry David Thoreau’s journals and Walden\, Moore explores what Thoreau’s ideas can offer us in a world marked by distraction\, consumerism\, and uncertainty. Together\, Moore and Higgins will discuss spirituality\, renewal\, our relationship with the natural world\, and how each of us might find our own path to a more mindful and meaningful life.\n \nThomas Moore is the author of the bestselling Care of the Soul and twenty other books on spirituality and depth psychology that have been translated into thirty languages. He has been practicing depth psychotherapy for thirty-five years. He lectures and gives workshops in several countries on depth spirituality\, soulful medicine\, and psychotherapy. He has been a monk and a university professor\, and is a consultant for organizations and spiritual leaders. He has often been on television and radio\, including Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul Sunday. \n\n \n\nRichard Higgins is a writer. He’s the author of Thoreau’s God\, about Thoreau’s iconoclastic spiritual vision\, (University of Chicago Press\, 2024) and Thoreau and the Language of Trees (University of California\, 2017). \n  \n\nThis event is part of the Write Connection at Thoreau Farm\, presented by the Thoreau Alliance. \n\nThis program is cosponsored by the Walden Woods Project.\n\nRegister through the Walden Woods Project. \n Register
URL:https://www.thoreaualliance.org/event/cure-at-walden/
LOCATION:Walden Woods Project\, 44 Baker Farm Road\, Lincoln\, MA
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SUMMARY:Where Do New Ideas Come From?
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URL:https://www.thoreaualliance.org/event/where-do-new-ideas-come-from/
LOCATION:Concord Free Public Library\, 129 Main Street\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
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SUMMARY:Thoreau Farm Reading Group: "Wild Apples"
DESCRIPTION:Fall 2026 Series: Exploring Thoreau’s Essays Together \nOne Thursday per month. One reading per meeting.  \nOctober 20: “Wild Apples” Download Reading.\n\n Register\n\n\n\n\nOther Reading Group sessions:\n\nSeptember 8: “Where I lived and What I Lived For” from Walden. Download Reading. Register.\nNovember 17: “A Winter Walk” Download Reading. Register.\nDecember 15: “Former Inhabitants & Winter Visitors” from Walden. Download Reading. Register\n\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.  \nJoin us at Thoreau Farm for our monthly reading group exploring the writing of Henry David Thoreau. Each session will center on one selected reading\, 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 every month or drop in as you’re able. \n\n\nDiscussions will be led by Richard Smith and Amity Wilczek. \n\n  \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-oct2026/
LOCATION:Thoreau Farm\, 341 Virginia Road\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
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SUMMARY:Thoreau’s Journal Drawings: A Conversation with Author Kathleen Kelly
DESCRIPTION:Register\n  \nJoin author Kathleen Kelly for a discussion of her new book Thoreau’s Journal Drawings: The Power of the Visual for in-depth exploration of one of the most overlooked—and most fascinating—aspects of Henry David Thoreau’s work. Beginning in 1850\, Thoreau started sketching everything from hedgehog quills and locust wings to goldenrod leaves\, using drawing alongside writing as a way to sharpen his powers of observation and deepen his understanding of the natural world. \nDrawing on her groundbreaking research\, Kelly reveals how these seemingly modest sketches were far more than illustrations. They were an essential part of Thoreau’s creative and scientific practice\, where words and images worked together to record\, interpret\, and make sense of the world around him. By placing Thoreau’s illustrated journal entries within the broader traditions of nineteenth-century scientific illustration\, nature writing\, and visual culture\, she offers fresh insight into his methods and the remarkable ways he learned to see. \nThrough close readings of illustrated journal passages\, this program uncovers a vital dimension of Thoreau’s work that has long been overlooked. Whether you’re a devoted Thoreau reader\, an artist\, a naturalist\, or simply curious about the intersection of art and science\, you’ll come away with a richer appreciation for how drawing helped shape one of America’s greatest observers of the natural world. \nThis program is free to attend in-person. It will not be livestreamed. A recording of the program will be made available.  \nThis event is presented in cooperation with Concord Art as part of the Concord Festival of Authors. \n \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n Register
URL:https://www.thoreaualliance.org/event/journal-drawings/
LOCATION:Concord Art\, 37 Lexington Rd\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
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SUMMARY:Joel Myerson Annual Lecture Presented by Professor Daniel Shealy
DESCRIPTION:Learn More and Register\n  \nPlease join us for the annual Joel Myerson Lecture: “‘I turn my adventures into bread and butter ‘: Louisa May Alcott’s European Grand Tour\,” presented by Professor Daniel Shealy. \nDaniel Shealy is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte\, where he teaches American literature. He has published thirteen books on Louisa May Alcott\, including co-editing The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott and The Journal of Louisa May Alcott with Joel Myerson. He also edited Little Women: An Annotated Edition\, published by Harvard University Press. His most recent book\, Little Women at 150\, was published in 2022. His forthcoming book\, Louisa May Alcott in Europe: Shawl Straps and Other Stories\, will be published by Mercer University Press in 2027. \nTHE JOEL MYERSON ANNUAL LECTURE SERIES \nAfter Prof. Joel Myerson died in 2021\, the William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library\, along with representatives from the Louisa May Alcott Society\, Margaret Fuller Society\, The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society\, and The Thoreau Society\, launched the Joel Myerson Annual Lecture Series. \nThe Joel Myerson Annual Lecture Series will engage the public in the study of American literature and literary history\, focusing on writers associated with Concord\, Massachusetts\, and American Transcendentalism\, with an interdisciplinary outlook. The series will highlight the work and ideas of emergent scholarship\, drawing on the values Myerson personified as a generous mentor\, teacher\, and public speaker and amplifying the diversity of representation that Joel Myerson exemplified in his textual scholarship and editorial initiatives. The series will promote lifelong learning and the recovery of primary source materials that teach us about the future as well as the past—beginning in Concord and radiating outward to American literature and culture as a means to engage with current events\, conservation\, and reform. \nA reception will follow the event in the Rotunda. \nThe Concord Free Public Library Corporation generously sponsors the series. \n  \nThis program will also be livestreamed.  Learn More and Register
URL:https://www.thoreaualliance.org/event/myerson-2026/
LOCATION:Concord Free Public Library\, 129 Main Street\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Walden Experiments: A Book Talk with Robert M. Thorson
DESCRIPTION:Register\nPlease join us for an evening with Professor Robert M. Thorson: a public lecture with readings\, followed by Q&A and book signing\, for his forthcoming book\, The Walden Experiments: The Science of Henry David Thoreau\, to be published in September 2026 by Princeton University Press. \n“Henry David Thoreau’s Walden stands as the foundational text for the environmental movement and as a model for the practice of nature writing. In The Walden Experiments\, Robert Thorson tells the story of how\, after several discarded drafts of social critique\, Thoreau resuscitated Walden with a sharp swerve toward science. Thorson invites us to read—or reread—Walden to discover the observations\, empirical thinking\, and scientific explanations supporting this canonical work of literature. Chapter by chapter\, he guides us through Walden’s relevance for such contemporary scientific concerns as climate change\, ecological collapse\, water supply\, agriculture\, artificial intelligence\, and technology. \nThoreau’s first “experiment” of living deliberately took place in a one-room house at Walden Pond from 1845 to 1847. This was followed from 1851 to 1852 by a little-known second experiment of trying to live deliberately in the midst of society as a sojourning scientist. Thorson’s account of a science-revitalized version of Walden helps us appreciate Thoreau’s masterpiece not only for its prophetic\, lyrical\, uplifting\, witty\, and timeless advice on living sustainably\, but also as a historic benchmark for anchoring our modern solutions. Exploring the science that underlies Walden enhances our understanding of the deeper meanings Thoreau draws from nature.” – Princeton University Press \n“No Thoreau scholar has a more commanding grasp than Robert Thorson of the significance of Thoreau’s contributions to the history of nineteenth century and modern science in all its branches.”— Lawrence Buell\, author of The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau\, Nature Writing\, and the Making of American Culture and Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently. \n“No writer has ever better combined a social critique with a scientific underpinning; as this fine account makes clear\, Thoreau was not just ahead of his time but of our time too. A remarkable reintroduction to the classic American book!”— Bill McKibben\, author of The End of Nature and Here Comes the Sun. \n  \nRobert M. Thorson is professor of Earth sciences at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Walden’s Shore: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science\, The Boatman: Henry David Thoreau’s River Years\, and The Guide to Walden Pond. \n  \n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by The Concord Free Public Library and The Walden Woods Project.\n\n Register
URL:https://www.thoreaualliance.org/event/walden-experiments/
LOCATION:Concord Free Public Library\, 129 Main Street\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
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SUMMARY:Thoreau Farm Reading Group: "A Winter Walk"
DESCRIPTION:Fall 2026 Series: Exploring Thoreau’s Essays Together \nOne Thursday per month. One reading per meeting.  \nNovember 17: “A Winter Walk” Download Reading. \n\n Register\n\n\n\nOther Reading Group sessions:\n\nSeptember 8: “Where I lived and What I Lived For” from Walden. Download Reading. Register.\nOctober 20: “Wild Apples” Download Reading. Register.\nDecember 15: “Former Inhabitants & Winter Visitors” from Walden. Download Reading. Register\n\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.  \nJoin us at Thoreau Farm for our monthly reading group exploring the writing of Henry David Thoreau. Each session will center on one selected reading\, 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 every month or drop in as you’re able. \n\n\nDiscussions will be led by Richard Smith and Amity Wilczek. \n\n  \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-nov2026/
LOCATION:Thoreau Farm\, 341 Virginia Road\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
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SUMMARY:Thoreau Farm Reading Group: "Former Inhabitants & Winter Visitors"
DESCRIPTION:Fall 2026 Series: Exploring Thoreau’s Essays Together \nOne Thursday per month. One reading per meeting.  \nDecember 15 : “Former Inhabitants & Winter Visitors” from Walden. Download Reading. \n\n Register\n\n\nOther Reading Group sessions:\n\nSeptember 8: “Where I lived and What I Lived For” from Walden. Download Reading. Register.\nOctober 20: “Wild Apples” Download Reading. Register.\nNovember 17: “A Winter Walk” Download Reading. Register.\n\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.  \nJoin us at Thoreau Farm for our monthly reading group exploring the writing of Henry David Thoreau. Each session will center on one selected reading\, 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 every month or drop in as you’re able. \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-dec2026/
LOCATION:Thoreau Farm\, 341 Virginia Road\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
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