Annual Gathering 2001

"60th Anniversary"

July 12-15, 2001

Concord, Massachusetts
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Keynote Address

"Thoreau and the American Passion for Wilderness" by Donald Worster

Workshops included:

  • "Thoreau 101" by Tom Potter
  • "Thoreau, Poetry and Science" by Laura Dassow Walls
  • "The Shaping of Thoreau" by Elizabeth Hall Witherall
  • "Thoreau's List of Worthies" by Robert Finch
  • "Photographing Walden Pond" by Bonnie McGrath
  • "Selections from Thoreau's Cape Cod" by Adam Gamble
  • "Thoreau, Harvard, and the Metaphysical Poets" by Dayton Haskin
  • "Thoreau's Country: A Slide Show of Images by Herbert Wendell Gleason" presented by Leslie Perrin Wilson

Discussions included:

  • "Ralph Waldo Emerson's Wisdom"
  • "Why Teach Thoreau?" led by Jayne Gordon
  • "Thoreauvian Perspectives on Wildness" chaired by Bradley P. Dean

Other activities included:

  • A Walk to Thoreau's Bean Field
  • Walking Tour of Concord
  • Discovering Thoreau at Minute Man National Park
  • Memorial Walk at Walden Pond
  • 60th Anniversary Recognition Celebration
  • Estabrook Woods Walk
  • Canoeing on the Concord River

 

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Photo Credits: Moose Photo Courtesy of Roger Mattlage, 2003.