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What do folk music and Thanksgiving
have in common? Special Thoreau
Society
event coming November 2008.
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Annual
Gathering
Four
days of indoor and outdoor sessions and excursions in and around
Concord, focused on a different theme each year. The Thursday-Sunday
program is scheduled for early July. More...
Educational
Programs
Lectures, classes, and performances in Thoreau's hometown of Concord,
often in collaboration with other historical, literary, environmental
and educational organizations. An educational DVD-ROM, Life
With Principle, is available for high school and adult
audiences with a full accompanying curriculum
and related workshops.
Excursions
Trips to places associated with Thoreau, from half-day hikes to
multi-day outings. Past locations have
included Mount Katahdin, Cape Cod, Harpers Ferry, Mount Monadnock
and such Concord sites as Fairhaven Bay, Gowing's Swamp and Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery. More...
Presentations
At academic conferences and workshops for educators. Both the Modern Language Association and the American Literature Association have two annual sessions
each devoted to Thoreau.
Projects
and Events
Coordinated by Society members, these take place in communities
across the country and worldwide, on a variety of topics, and
are posted on the Society's website.
Publications
Publications
Join/Subscribe
Our
publications include: The
Thoreau Society Bulletin and the Concord
Saunterer.
High
School Libraries, Public Libraries, and Research Libraries
can all benefit from our publications, which have been
the standard of excellence in Thoreau Studies since 1941.
Serious
scholars and general readers alike enjoy reading our publications.
In fact, that's the dynamic that's fueled our organization
since its inception. Questions? Call 978-369-5310.
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Thoreau
Society Bulletin
A quarterly publication with Society news, additions to the Thoreau
bibliography, and short articles on Thoreau and related topics.
More...
Concord
Saunterer
An annual scholarly and popular journal with two hundred pages
of in-depth essays on Thoreau, his times and his contemporaries,
and his influence today. More...
Thoreau Society Booklets
From 1942 through 1981, The Thoreau Society from time to time issued "booklets." These publications were sent to Society members and included a number of primary source tidbits. In all, 31 Thoreau Society Booklets were produced. (Some were not exactly in booklet form.) These items are a bit difficult to find today, and the Society no longer has extra copies for sale. More ...
Books
The
Society publishes original Thoreau-related books and reprints
of selected hard-to-find titles about
Thoreau. It also works with other publishers to do so.
The
Collections
The Thoreau Society owns several important collections, including
the papers of Walter Harding, Raymond Adams and Roland Robbins,
which are housed at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods. This
research facility, founded through a collaboration between the
Walden Woods Project and The Thoreau Society, is managed by the
Walden Woods Project.
The Thoreau
Society works with the Institute staff to promote research use
of the collections by all students and scholars pursuing an interest
in Thoreau. For Institute library hours, call the Curator at (781)
259-4730. More...
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The
Friends of Walden Pond
The Thoreau Society acts as the official Friends group for the Walden Pond State Reservation. More...
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