WALDEN at Walden: Cover to Cover

WALDEN at Walden: Cover to Cover

A DAWN TO DUSK READING OF THOREAU’S
CLASSIC BOOK TO CELEBRATE THE
150^TH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS PUBLICATION

Join us for this historic event, 8 July 2004 (Thursday) on the hillside above the main beach at Walden Pond State Reservation, Route 126, Concord, Massachusetts.

Commencing at 6 am: When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months . . . and ending approximately 12 hours later in early evening: Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Witness Thoreau's classic text read at historic Walden Pond by readers from around the globe, including writers, educators, environmentalists, representatives from historical sites, conservation groups and literary organizations, officials from local, state and federal governments, visitors from other countries, students, scholars, and Thoreau Society members from far and wide.

Sponsored by The Thoreau Society, The Friends of Walden Pond, The Department of Conservation and Recreation, and The Walden Pond State Reservation.

Walden at Walden Pond, 8 July 2004: 6-7am

I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up.

Ronald A. Bosco
The Thoreau Society Board, President
Concord, MA
Joseph L. Andrews
Local Historian
Concord, MA
Edmund A. Schofield
Tower Hill Botanical Garden, Education Director
Worcester, MA
Mary Lamb Shelden
Thoreau Edition, Northern IL University
DeKalb, IL
Mark Schorr
The Robert Frost Foundation, Executive Director
Lawrence, MA
Bill Schechter
Lincoln-Sudbury Regional H.S., Teacher
Brookline, MA
Susan Frommer
Lincoln-Sudbury Regional H.S., Teacher
Concord, MA
Anne Kramer
Lincoln-Sudbury Regional H.S., Teacher
Sudbury, MA
Brenda Finn
Concord Public Schools, Superintendent
Concord, MA
Stuart Weinreb
MA Audubon Society, Director of Capital Assets & Planning
Acton, MA
Renee Voorhees
Acton Public Schools, Educator
Princeton, MA

Walden at Walden Pond, 8 July 2004: 7-8AM

It should not be by their architecture, but why not even by their power of abstract thought, that nations should seek to commemorate themselves?

Tom Potter
The Thoreau Society Board, Director
Martinsville, IN
Phebe Ham
Licensed Historic Guide of Concord
Concord, MA
Bob Flagg
Summerfield Waldorf School
Santa Rosa, CA
Janet Kemper Beck
Appalachian State University
Valle Crucis, NC
Marcia Rasmussen
Town of Concord, Department of Planning & Land Management
Stow, MA
Tom Beal
Thoreau Society Member, Educator
Lincoln, MA
Bob Clarke
School Sisters of Notre Dame, Development Manager
Woodbury, CT
Connie Schwartzkopf
Thoreau Society, Life Member
Stow, MA
Claiborne Dawes
Author, A Different Drummer
Concord, MA
John H. Clymer
Lawyer
Concord, MA
Charles Phillips
Thoreau Society, Life Member
Concord, MA
Rev. John C. Lombard
Trinitarian Congregational Church (UCC)
Concord, MA

Walden at Walden Pond, 8 July 2004: 8-9AM

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Sterling Delano
The Thoreau Society Board, Director
Blue Bell, PA
Joy Ackerman
Antioch New England Graduate School
Sutton, MA
Christen Lekorenos
Concord Schools, Social Studies Coordinator
Concord, MA
Gary R. Clayton
MA Audubon Society, Vice President of Operations
Concord, MA
Catherine J. Magnuson
S.U.N.Y. at Albany, New York
Albany, NY
Jim Magnuson
Thoreau Enthusiast
Albany, NY
Richard Smith
Living History Reenactor
Acton, MA
Tom Hart
Concord-Carlisle H.S., English Teacher
Concord, MA
Anne Wanzer
Thoreau Society Member
Concord, MA
Robert D. Habich
Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, Secretary/Treasurer
Muncie, IN
Virginia McIntyre
Town of Concord, Board of Selectmen
Concord, MA
Maris Delano
Thoreau Society Member
Blue Bell, PA

Walden at Walden Pond, 8 July 2004: 9-10AM

The whistle of the locomotive penetrates my woods summer and winter, sounding like the scream of a hawk sailing over some farmer's yard. . . .

Robert Hudspeth
The Thoreau Society Board, President
Ontario, CA
Antonio Casado da Rocha
University of the Basque Country
San Sebastian, Spain
Peter Alden
Author, National Audubon Society Field Guides
Concord, MA
Lou Sideris
Minute Man National Historical Park, Chief of Interpretation
Concord, MA
Michael J. Frederick
Thoreau Society, Program Specialist
Melrose, MA
Carol Gupta
Hay Meadows Press
Concord, MA
Maya Gupta
University of Pennsylvania, Student
Concord, MA
Harry Beyer
Saunterer
Concord, MA
Phyllis Cole
Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, President
Lansdowne, PA
Peggy Brace
Thoreau Society Member
Concord, MA
Ellen Fitzpatrick
DCR, Special Projects and Events Coordinator
Acton, MA
Paula E. Peinovich
Walden University, President and Provost
Minneapolis, MN

Walden at Walden Pond, 8 July 2004: 10-11AM

This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore. I go and come with a strange liberty in Nature, a part of herself.

Leslie Wilson
The Thoreau Society Board, Director
Lancaster, MA
Peggy Briggs
Town of Concord, Board of Selectmen
Concord, MA
Brian Rosborough
Earthwatch, Founder
Concord, MA
Bob Burke
Freelance Actor
Denver, CO
Carol Kowalski
Town of Concord, Department of Planning & Land Management
Arlington, MA
Lawrence Buell
Harvard University, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature
Lincoln, MA
Barbara Powell
Concord Free Public Library, Director
Concord, MA
Margaret Emerson Bancroft
RW Emerson Memorial Association, President;
Emerson Descendant
Medfield, MA
John Gunnarson
43-year Citizen of Concord
Concord, MA
Jacqueline Wool
Books with a Past
Concord, MA
Jim Hayden
Thoreau Society, Retail Manager
Methuen, MA
Malcolm Ferguson
Thoreau Society, Life Member
Concord, MA

Walden at Walden Pond, 8 July 2004: 11am-Noon

It was a singular experience that long acquaintance which I cultivated with beans, what with planting, and hoeing, and harvesting, and threshing, and picking over and selling them—the last was the hardest of all—I might add eating, for I did taste. I was determined to know beans.

Susie Carlisle
The Thoreau Society Board, Director
Ashburnham, MA
Bernard Zaleha
Sierra Club, National Vice President
Boise, ID
Veronica Daley Zaleha
Pacific Northwest Library Association
Boise, ID
Rick Artzner
Retired Teacher
Massillon, OH
Gordon V. Boudreau
Le Moyne College, Emeritus Professor of English
Syracuse, NY
Stephen Ells
Publications, Estabrook Woods
Lincoln, MA
Bradley P. Dean
Independent Scholar
West Peterborough, NH
Katie McCormick
Thoreau Enthusiast
Cambridge, MA
Alexander Forbes Emerson
Emerson Descendant; Poet/Carpenter
Accord, NY
Dan Emerson
Emerson Descendant
Groton, MA

Walden at Walden Pond, 8 July 2004: Noon-1PM

In such a day, in September or October, Walden is a perfect forest mirror, set round with stones as precious to my eye as if fewer or rarer. Nothing so fair, so pure, and at the same time so large, as a lake, perchance, lies on the surface of the earth.

Nancy Craig Simmons
The Thoreau Society Board, Director
Blacksburg, VA
Bob Breau
CT Audubon Society
Marlborough, CT
Richard W. Wheeler
Concord Neighborhood Network, Co-Chair
Concord, MA
Sarah Lazarus
Concord Resident in former Thoreau Home
Concord, MA
Carol Dwyer
Grassroots Actions for Peace
Concord, MA
Denise Morrissey
Walden Pond State Reservation, Park Supervisor
Concord, MA
Steven Bentley
Thoreau Society, Outreach Specialist
Lexington, MA
Jayne Gordon
Thoreau Society, Executive Director
Concord, MA
Courtland Booth
Director of Concord-Carlisle Adult and Community Education
Concord, MA
Academic Success Students
Concord Public Schools,
Summer Academic Success Program
Concord & Boston, MA
Tim Rayworth
DCR, Regional Environmental Education Coordinator
Northborough, MA

Walden at Walden Pond, 8 July 2004: 1-2PM

Kirby and Spence tell us that the battles of ants have long been celebrated and the date of them recorded, though they say that Huber is the only modern author who appears to have witnessed them.

Joseph C. Wheeler
The Thoreau Society Board, Director
Concord, MA
Lawrence Dorman
DCR, Deputy Commissioner for Operations
Boston, MA
Kent Curtis
The Walden Woods Project, Director of Education
Maynard, MA
Helen Bowdoin
The Walden Woods Project, Land Conservation Coordinator
Concord, MA
Frank Singleton
Thoreau Society
Medford, MA
Mark N. Angney
Concord-Carlisle H.S., Chair of the English Department
Boston, MA
Markus Pinney
Town of Concord, Natural Resources Administrator
Lexington, MA
Ray Landry
Robert Frost Foundation, Board Member and AP Consultant
Methuen, MA
Kathleen N. Burke
Harmony Road Ministries
Parsippany, NJ
Laryssa Duncan
Princeton University
Plainsboro, NJ

Walden at Walden Pond, 8 July 2004: 2-3PM

At length the winter set in good earnest, just as I had finished plastering, and the wind began to howl around the house as if it had not had permission to do so till then.

Dave Ganoe
The Thoreau Society Board, Director
Salisbury, MD
Bob Sattelmeyer
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA
Brian Donahue
Brandeis University, Environmental History
Weston, MA
Verona Wheeler
Thoreau Society Member
Concord, MA
Steve Carlin
Walden Pond State Reservation, Visitor Services Supervisor
Framingham, MA
Philip McFarland
Author
Lexington, MA
Robert A. Gross
University of CT, Draper Chair of Early American History
Tolland, CT
Barbara Buls
DCR, Region II Interpretive Coordinator
Gloucester, MA
Kristin Karl Carnahan
DCR, Bureau of Interpretive Services, Chief
Boston, MA
Charlie Lotspeich
DCR, Holyoke Heritage State Park
Holyoke, MA

Walden at Walden Pond, 8 July 2004: 3-4PM

As I sounded through the ice I could determine the shape of the bottom with greater accuracy than is possible in surveying harbors which do not freeze over, and I was surprised at its general regularity.

Richard Schneider
The Thoreau Society Board, Director
Waverly, IA
Judy Stern
Concord Museum, Director of Education
Stow, MA
Robert Everett Dunbar
Thoreau Descendant
Gardiner, ME
Stefano Paolucci
Thoreau Society Member
Italy
Jon Wawrzonek
Nature Photographer
Southborough, MA
Rebecca Sheehan Purcell
Friends of Concord Free Public Library
Concord, MA
Susan Perry
Thoreau Society Member
Concord, MA
Sarah Goos
Lawyer
Concord, MA
Mary Manson
Virginia Woolf Scholar
Cambridge, MA

Walden at Walden Pond, 8 July 2004: 4-5PM

One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the Spring come in. The ice in the pond at length begins to be honeycombed, and I can set my heel in it as I walk.

J. Walter Brain
The Thoreau Society Board, Director
Lincoln, MA
Jim Pattie
Concord Middle School, Teacher
Burlington, MA
Wayne Dilts
Thoreau Society Member, Educator
Stewartsville, NJ
Philip Benincasa
Town of Concord, Board of Selectman
Concord, MA
Richard T. Gillespie
Loudoun Valley H.S., Social Science Department
Purcellville, VA
Bob Derry
National Park Service, Minute Man National Historical Park
Watertown, MA
Wes Mott
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Professor of English
Oak Bluffs, MA
Lorna Mack
Thoreau Society Member
Concord, MA
Jennie Walker Wollenweber
The Thoreau Society Board, Director
Baltimore, MD
John Mack
The Thoreau Society Board, Treasurer
Concord, MA
Fred Sheldon
Thoreau Society Member
Nashua, NH
Sue Purchon
Continental Café
Acton, MA

Walden at Walden Pond, 8 July 2004: 5-6pm

One day it came into his mind to make a staff.

Barbara Wojtusik
The Thoreau Society Board, Director
Bristol, CT
Sandy Petrulionis
The Thoreau Society Board, Director
Altoona, PA
Laurel Petrulionis
Student
Altoona, PA
Ron Hoag
The Thoreau Society Board, Director
Grimesland, NC
Mary Zellner
Concord-Carlisle Schools
Bedford, MA
Huey
Films by Huey
Portland, ME
Judith Wentzell
Films by Huey
Portland, ME
Abigail Rorer
Artist
Petersham, MA
Jan Turnquist
Orchard (Alcott) House, Executive Director
Concord, MA
Sara A. Mattes
Town of Lincoln, Board of Selectmen
Lincoln, MA
Don Buckler
Arlington H.S., Science Teacher
Belmont, MA
Ellen Morello
Arlington H.S., Senior
Arlington, MA
Jackie Eagan
Arlington H.S., Senior
Arlington, MA
Bob Galvin (penultimate reader)
Transcendental Lawyer
Jamaica Plain, MA
Albena Bakratcheva (concluding reader)
New Bulgarian University
Sofia, Bulgaria

Walden Pond State Reservation is managed by the
Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.