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The Dana S. Brigham Memorial Keynote Address
“Henry David Thoreau and the Four Seasons in American Culture" by Michael Kammen *
Session sponsored by Walden University:
"Environmental Justice from a Native Perspective: by Winona LaDuke **
Workshops included:
- "Transcendentalism: Emerson to Thoreau" chaired by Robert Hudspeth
- "The Historical Background of Higher Laws" chaired by Sandy Petrulionis
- "Men Who Make the Law Free: Thoreau and Civil Disobedience" by Richard Smith
- "Thoreau's Correspondence with H.G.O. Blake: An Inquiry into Higher Laws" by Bradley P. Dean
- "Thoreau and his Environmental Legacy" by Joe Gilbert and Jen Walker
- "Thoreau Country: Recent Changes in Bird and Plant Life" by Peter Alden
- "Transcendentalists and Leaves of Grass: An Emerson Society Program" by Megan Marshall, Len Gougeon and Elizabeth Addison
- "Thoreau's Transcendental Ecology: Science, Nature, and Higher Laws" by Edmund Schofield
- "A Moderated Discussion on Thoreau and Technology" led by Mike Frederick
- "Natural History and Natural Life: Thoreau's Intellectual and Emotional Crisis" by David Robinson
- "The Evolution of Higher Laws" by Bob Sattelmeyer
- "Thoreau's Synoptic Vision of Nature" by Michael Berger
- :Thoreau, Nature, and the Cultural History of Adventure" by Don Whaley
- "Thoreau and his Birds: Nature, Science and Literature" by Tom Potter
- "In Wildness is the Preservation of the World: Thoreau's Environmental Ethics" by Philip Cafaro
- "Thoreau, Science, and the Tribunal of Truth" by Laura Dassow Walls and Eric Wilson
Discussions included:
- "Thoreau and Nature" led by Joe Gilbert and Jen Walker
- "Thoreau and Science" led by Laura Dassow Walls and Eric Wilson
- "Thoreau and Higher Laws" led by Mike Frederick and Rich Higgins
Other activities included:
- Nature walk at Old North Bridge
- Walking tour of Concord
- Bird walk
- Tour of the newly renovated Concord Free Public Library
- Young Thoreauvians get-together
- Memorial Walk at Walden Pond
- Canoeing on the Concord River
- Thoreau Farm Birthplace Tours
* Michael Kammen's
book, A Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture (2004), is now available for sale. Click on the image on this page to
purchase it from our E-store. Proceeds from all E-store sales
support the mission of the Thoreau Society.
** Winona LaDuke, a member of the Anishinaabe nation who lives on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, is highly respected activist for social and environmental issues. She is the Program Director of Honor the Earth and the Founding Director of White Earth Land Recovery Project.
Annual Gathering 2005
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