Announcing our 2026 Fellowship Awardees
We are delighted to announce that Sonia Paradis is the 2026 recipient of the Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship and Alissa O’Brien is the 2026 recipient of the the Thoreau Country […]
“Freedom’s Silhouette” Comes to Thoreau Farm
Inspired by the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and the legacies of Henry David Thoreau and Ellen Garrison, this installation by Massachusetts-based artist Liz Helfer uses reflective acrylic silhouettes on
Ken Burns Presents Henry David Thoreau
A film by Erik Ewers and Christopher Loren Ewers “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation… We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.” – HENRY DAVID THOREAU Airing
Ross Gay Named Winner of Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence in Nature Writing
The Thoreau Alliance announces that Ross Gay is the winner of the 2026 Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence in Nature Writing. On June 14, 2026, Gay will appear
I Will Teach It For You
In collaboration with the Margaret Fuller Society, Transcendental Concord, and a range of public thinkers and scholars, we invite you to adopt and share texts that are being censored or