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The following selection appeared in the Fall 2003, Number 245 issue of TSB.

Forgotten Radio Broadcast about Walden Pond
by W. Barksdale Maynard

     "Walden: 1962" was the title of a broadcast on radio station WBZ, 20 July 1962, in commemoration of the centennial of Thoreau's death that year. It proved so popular that it was released as a phonographic record— typical of the offbeat sources that I encountered during my research for Walden Pond: A History, to be published in 2004 by Oxford University Press.

    A reporter visited Walden Pond in early summer and drew an ironic contrast between conditions in Thoreau's day and those now: "Refreshment stands, a trailer camp, and a dump -- these greet visitors to Walden, 1962.... Red transistor radios, white toy sailboats, blue beach blankets, yellow towels, green buckets, orange life jackets, Scotch plaid picnic bags, polka-dot bikinis.... When they reach his home, the pilgrims sit on benches. Their ears soon become accustomed to the steady rumble of huge trucks on Route Two, a quarter mile to the north. Every few minutes they vibrate as an airplane zooms low, taking off or landing at nearby Bedford airport [Hanscom Field].... The smell of sun lotion, hot dogs, Concord dump. The sight of litter highlighted by an occasional soda pop bottle bobbing upside down." Walden, the reporter concluded, was "compromised by commercialism and indifferent suburbanites, its very change a lesson in the need for conservation."

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