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Thoreau's Legacy
Politcs & Reform
160th Anniversary of
Henry D. Thoreau's
RESISTANCE TO
CIVIL GOVERNMENT
1849-2009
"There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly."
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150th Anniversary of
Henry D. Thoreau's
A PLEA FOR CAPTAIN
JOHN BROWN
1859-2009
"I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will sing it; the historian record it; and, with the Landing of the Pilgrims and the Declaration of Independence, it will be the ornament of some future national gallery, when at least the present form of Slavery shall be no more here. We shall then be at liberty to weep for Captain Brown."
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Conservation
"The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild; and what I have been preparing to say is, that
in Wildness is the preservation of the world. Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind."
Henry D. Thoreau
WALKING, 1850
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Ecology
“Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there and I am prepared to expect wonders.”
Henry D. Thoreau
FAITH IN A SEED
Published Posthumously
1993
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Lifestyle
"Simplify, simplify."
Henry D. Thoreau
WALDEN, 1854
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Sense of Wonder
I fear not spirits, ghosts, of which I am one, — that my body might, — but I fear bodies, I tremble to meet them. What is this Titan that has possession of me? Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we?
Henry D. Thoreau
"Ktaadn"
THE MAINE WOODS, 1864
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Aesthetic Beauty of Language
"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars."
Henry D. Thoreau
"Where I Lived,
and What I Lived for,"
WALDEN, 1854
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2010
Annual
Gathering of The Thoreau Society
All are welcome to register to attend community-wide events in Concord and Lincoln, Massachusetts, and at the Walden Pond State Reservation
Henry Thoreau and Transcendentalism:
Then and Now
July
8 – 11, 2010 Concord, Massachusetts
DRAFT Schedule of Events
- Annual Gathering Schedule
- Thursday (Highlights):
- Gallery Exhibit at the Emerson Umbrella
- Thoreau Farm Trust Picnic
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Panel;
Co-sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Society
at the Corinthian Lodge
- Friday (Highlights):
- Concord Walking Tours lead by expert naturalists and historians
- Dinner at the First Parish, Unitarian Universalist Church
- Exhibit Open, Wine and Cheese Social at the Concord Free Public Library
- Saturday (Highlights):
Morning and afternoon events at the First Parish:
- Annual Business Meeting of The Thoreau Society
- Keynote Address: Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize finalist and Massachusetts Book Award-winner, The Peabody Sisters
- Meet Henry D Thoreau: A stage performance by Kevin Radaker, Professor of English, Anderson University in Anderson, Indiana
Special Events at the Thoreau Institute & Walden Woods Project, Lincoln, MA
- Henley Library Tour
- Dinner
- Booksigning: Open to all
- Sunday (Highlights):
- Thoreau Farm Trust Open House & Tours
- Orchard House & Thoreau Society Session at the
Concord School of Philosoph
Thursday, July 8, 2010
9-10:00 am Gayle Moore, Gallery Exhibit, Refreshments & Talk, Emerson Umbrella
9:30-3:30 Registration
10:00-10:30 Refreshments
10:30-12:00 Workshop I at the Masonic Temple, 58 Monument Square, Concord, MA
Panel Discussion (Main Floor)
- Rochelle Johnson, Thoreau’s Late Thoughts on Perception: Lessons for 21st-Century Environmental Thinkers
- Albena Bakratcheva, The Delegated Intellect of Transcendental New England: Then and Now
Panel Discussion (Downstairs)
- Robert Young, Walking to Wachusett – A Re-enactment of Thoreau’s “A Walk to Wachusett
Noon Lunch on your own
1:30-3:00 Workshop II at the Masonic Temple, 58 Monument Square, Concord, MA
Presentation (Main Floor)
- Peter Alden, What Would Henry Think of Today's Environmental Challenges Here and Around The World
Panel Discussion (Downstairs)
- Paul J. Medeiros, From Train Rails to Jail Tales: Relativity Justifies Transcendentalist Morality!
- Audrey Raden, Thoreau and John Brown
3:30-5 pm Workshop III at the Masonic Temple, 58 Monument Square, Concord, MA
Panel Presentations (Main Floor)
- Tracey A. Cummings, Into the Thoreauvian Wild: John Krakauer’s Reimagining and Reconsideration of Thoreauvian Transcendentalism and American Masculinity in “Into the Wild
- Shinji Iwamasa, Thoreau's Double Vision in Terry Tempest Williams
- Nikita Pokrovsky, Transcendental psychosemantics: Thoreau and Emerson on the meaning of Nature
Presentation
- Corrine Smith, Thoreau’s Minnesota Journey
5-7 pm Thoreau Farm Trust Picnic
Bring your own picnic. Drinks provided. 341 Virginia Road in Concord
7:30-9 pmThe Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Panel; co-sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Society
Transcendental Conversations,chair/moderator: Leslie Eckel, Suffolk University
- From Schoolroom to Cosmos: Margaret Fuller and Bronson Alcott in Conversation, Leslie Eckel, Suffolk University
- Transcendentalism's Private World: Fuller and Sturgis in Newport," Kathleen Lawrence, George Washington University
- Rich in Friends, Rich in Experiences, Rich in Culture: Notes on Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, and Friendship," Iuliu Ratiu, SUNY-Albany
- Margaret and Her Friends: Dall, Emerson, and the Gender Politics of Transcendental Conversation, Tiffany K. Wayne, independent scholar, Santa Cruz, CA
Friday, July 9, 2010
Walking Tours
6:45-9:15 am To secret, huge Great Blue Heron colony near White Pond in south Concord
8:30-10 am Janet Beck & Jayne Gordon, "A Transcendentalist Above All”: A Walking Tour of John Brown’s Concord.
9:30-3 pm Registration
9:30-10:30 Refreshments
10:30-Noon Workshop IV at the Masonic Temple, 58 Monument Square, Concord, MA
Panel Discussion (Main Floor)
- Robert Thomas Klevay, Transcendental Quotation in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
- Edward Mooney, Transcendentalism in “A Week on the Concord & Merrimack Rivers”
Panel Presentations (Downstairs)
- Linda Holt, The Zen Drawings of H.D. Thoreau
- Iuliu E. Ratiu, Surveying (in) Thoreau's Walden
Noon Box Lunch
1-2:30 Workshop V at the Masonic Temple, 58 Monument Square, Concord, MA
Panel Discussion (Main Floor)
The Environment: Thoreau as Transcendentalist Physician
- K. P. Van Anglen, Transcendentalism and the Environment: An Introduction to Thoreau’s Changing Stance
- James Engell, A Physician not a Metaphysician: Thoreau’s Diagnoses of the Heart
- Brent Ranalli, The Native American Model: The Civic and Economic Virtues of a Healthy Relationship to Nature
Presentation (Downstairs)
- Kit Bakke, A Bedlam Of Good Intentions: Modest Reflections on The Whys and Wherefores of Utopian Communes in The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
3-4:30 Workshop VI at the Masonic Temple, 58 Monument Square, Concord, MA
Panel Discussion (Main Floor)
- Thoreau, Laura Dassow Walls
- Thoreau, Edward Mooney
- Thoreau, Tom Potter
Presentation (CFPL)
- Concord Free Public Library Discussion
5:30-7 Dinner at the First Parish Church
7:30-9:00 Concord Free Public Library
Saturday, July 10, 2010
6:45-9:15 am To Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Concord
7 am Corinne H. Smith, Walter Harding Memorial Walk at Walden Pond
8-9 Refreshments
9-10:30 Annual Business Meeting
10:45-Noon Dana S. Brigham Memorial Keynote Address by Megan Marshall
Noon Box Lunch
12:30-1 pm Registration
12:30-2:00 pm Performance
Kevin Radaker, Meet Henry D. Thoreau
2:30-4:00 pm Workshop VIII at the Masonic Temple, 58 Monument Square, Concord, MA
Presentation (Main Floor)
- Barry Andrews, From Emerson to Obama: Transcendentalism Yesterday And Today
Presentation (Downstairs)
- Robert M. Thorson, Walden as the Fourth Derivative of Local Geology
4:30 pm Pickup Van Service from the Masonic Temple to the Thoreau Institute
5-6 pm Tour of Henley Library & the Thoreau Society Collections
5:30 Pickup Van Service from the Masonic Temple to the Thoreau Institute
6 pm Pickup Van Service from the Thoreau Institute to the Masonic Temple
6-6:30 pm Reception for Keynote Speaker: Megan Marshall
6:30-8pm Dinner Buffet: Dining Room, Porch, Great Hall, and Yard
8-9:30 pm Book Signing: Living Room
9-9:30 Pickup Van Service from the Thoreau Institute to the Masonic Temple
Sunday, July 11, 2010
6:45-9:15 am To Fairhaven Bay and cliffs and beaver pond beyond Walden (with special parking on Fairhaven Hill c/o Concord
Land Conservation Trust).
7:30-10 am Randall Conrad & Richard Lenat, Exploring the Pencil Factory Dam Site in Acton
Gather promptly in Masonic Temple parking lot for car pool
10-11:30 Workshop VIII at the Masonic Temple, 58 Monument Square, Concord, MA
Presentation (Main Floor)
- Peter MacInerney, Transcending Ideologies: Thoreau's Mather, Then and Now
Presentation (Downstairs)
- Debra Enzenbacher, Thoreau, Transcendentalism and One Woman’s Search for Meaning at the South Pole
Noon-2 pm Open House: Thoreau Farm Trust
2:30-5 pm School of Philosophy
What Were We Born to Do? The "New Women" of the Transcendental Era
A conversation with Phyllis Cole, Helen Deese, Megan Marshall, and John Matteson
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