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The Dana S. Brigham Memorial Keynote Address:
"Absolute Freedom and Wildness: Thoreau, Anarchism, and the Wild" by Donald M. Whaley
Workshops included:
- "Saving the Maine Woods: A Century of Schemes and Dreams" by Jym St. Pierre
- "In Search of the West: Thoreau's Trip to Minnesota" by Corinne H. Smith
- "Nightwalker: Thoreau's Culture of Darkness and Moonlight" by Susie Carlisle
- "Escape Mission Impossible: From Walden to the Kostroma Woods" by Nikita Pokrovsky
- "Emerson and Wildness" by Dan Malachuk, Gayle Smith and Bob Burkholder
- "Thoreau's 'Chanticleer' Call" by Tom Potter
- "Imagine a Mountain" by D.B. Johnson
- "Gleason's Mountains, Seashores and Moonlight" led by Leslie Perrin Wilson
- "Environmentalism as a Spiritual Path"
- "On the Edge of the Wild," photo exhibit, by Tom Potter and Gayle Moore
- "Thoreau: Technology and the Wild" led by Pam Mack
- "Wildness in Thoreau's Cape Cod" led by Albena Bakratcheva, Kent Ljungquist, and Dick Schneider
- "Playing Detective: Reconstructing Thoreau's Walking Manuscripts" by Jennie Walker
- "Higher Laws from the Perspective of a Scientist / Artist" led by John Wawrzonek
- "We Need the Tonic of Wildness: The Wild as Universal Panacea" by Antonio Casado da Rocha
- "The Gospel According to this Moment: Thoreau, the Wild and American Nature Religion" by Alan D. Hodder
- "Wild Philosophy: Three Perspectives on the Philosophic Legacy of Thoreau" led by Don Conway, Janet Fiskio, and Jim Hatley
- "Give Me for My Friends Wild Men" by Richard Smith
Discussions included:
- First Discussion of the AG Theme, led by John Chateanuneuf and Dave Luther
- Second Discussion of the AG Theme, led by Wayne Dilts and Charles Phillips
Other Activities included:
- Walden Pond's Natural Features
- Explore the Pond
- Walden to the Third Power: an Arduous Trek
- Walking Tour of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
- Thoreau Birth House Tour
- Moonlight Walk at Walden Pond
- Nature Walk at Egg Rock
- New Members and First-Timers Orientation
- Unveiling of Life with Principle, a major initiative of the Society
- Young Thoreauvians Get-together
- Memorial Walk at Walden Pond
- Remembrance for Bradley P. Dean
- Beyond Twilight Walks (a haunted tour of downtown Concord)
- Canoeing on the Concord River
- Nature walk at Punkatasset Hill and Pond
- Watermelon Party
Program Booklet for Annual Gathering 2006 (PDF - 222 KB)
Registration Form for Annual Gathering 2006 (PDF - 66 KB)
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