Annual Gathering

Annual Gathering Schedule, July 10-14, 2019

Annual Gathering 2019

Engineering Thoreau: Nature, Technology, and the Connected Life

Dana S. Brigham Memorial Keynote Address:

Henry Petroski

author of The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance

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Annual Gathering Schedule, July 10-14, 2019

TIME	EVENT	LOCATION
	W E D N E S D A Y, JULY 10, 2018
Wed 5-7 pm	Registration	Masonic
Wed 7-9 pm	Transcendental Theater	Masonic
	1. Performance: Henry Thoreau's Heroic Journey, Michael Sperber, Director
	2. Performance: Thoreau/Twain: Brothers on the River, Tammy Rose, Director
	T H U R S D A Y, JULY 11, 2018
Thurs 6:30 am	Punkatasset Hill Walk with Peter Alden. Meet at Keyes Rd to carpool.
Thurs 8 am	Registration	Masonic
Thurs 8:45-10:15 am	Presentations	Masonic
Main Level	1. Figure in the Mist: The Death of John Thoreau Jr. and the Changing Worlds of A Week, Audrey Raden, PhD, New York Theological Seminary
	2. How the Crystal Hills Became Woedolor Mountain, Wende Lark Greenberg, PhD
	3. “What’s the Railroad to Me?”: Teaching the Complexity of Thoreau’s Response to Technology, Christina Root
Lower Level	1. Cultivating a different kind of garden: Thoreau, Lawn-care, and the Modern Mowing Mania, Michael Stoneham, Humanities Chair, University of Pittsburgh Johnstown
	2. As a Forest of Wildlife: Observations on The Working Landscapes of Thoreau’s New England and the Adirondacks, NY, Marianne Patinelli-Dubay, PhD, Environmental Philosophy Program, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
	3. Thoughts from Building a Replica House; or, I and Thoreau's Chimney, Ed Gillin, Professor of English, SUNY-Geneseo
	4. Power politics, inspired persistence, and good luck in Thoreau’s Maine Woods, Jym St. Pierre
Thurs 10:30-noon	Presentations	Masonic
Main Level	Maine Woods Panel Rediscovering the Maine Woods: Thoreau’s Legacy in an Unsettled Land. John J. Kucich discussion with Robert Thorson, Laura Dassow Walls, Dale Potts and Chris Sockalexis
Lower Level	1. Dark Thoreau Revisited, Geoff Wisner
	2. “Tell me who you go with”… The Ellery Connection, Theodore David, JD, Professor of Law and Taxation
	3. The Other 'Hermit" of Thoreau's Walden Pond: The Sojourn of Edmond Stuart Hotham, Terry Barkley, M.A.T., M.L.S., C.M.S.
	4. A Plummet Line, a Pencil, an Arrowhead, Catherine Staples, Villanova University
Thurs 12-1 pm	Lunch: Catered by Saltbox Kitchen, farm to table	Masonic
Thurs 12-1 pm	Special Event: Lasting Legacy Program with Ron Hoag, Michael Schleifer, and Ted David This session is open to those who would like to learn more about naming the Thoreau Society as a beneficiary in their estate planning. A complimentary lunch catered by the Colonial Inn will be provided by the Thoreau Society.	Thoreau Room at the Colonial Inn
Thurs 1-2 pm	Presentations	Masonic
Main Level	1. Sounds like Steam Spirit: the Railroad as Inspiration and Crisis in Thoreau’s Walden, Henrik Otterberg, PhD
Lower Level	1. Life on Fire: The Technology of Walden, Diana Lorence
Thurs 1-2 pm	Special Event	Thoreau Room at the Colonial Inn
	1. Tea With Thoreau, Sinton Stranger, USC, MSTC, Urasenke Tankokai LAA, Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, docent Chinese and Japanese Tea Garden
Thurs 2:15-3:45 pm	Presentations	Masonic
Main Level	1. Engineering Through Junior High Language Arts with Henry David Thoreau, Donna Marie Pryzbojewski, Junior High Language Arts teacher at St. Benedict Catholic School
	2. After STEM: Henry David Thoreau’s Contributions toward Consilience, John Barthell, PhD, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Central Oklahoma
	3. Thoreau’s Questions, Geoff Wisner
Lower Level	1. Thoreau and Humor, Michael Schleifer, Chair
	2. Thoreau in Billerica, MA, Marlies Henderson
	3. Thoreau: A Teacher of Teachers, Hunter Cambon, English Teacher, St. Thomas Aquinas High School
	4. Wheeler-Thoreau Shanty Site Discovery, Jeffery Craig
Thurs 2:15-3:45 pm	Special Event: Walden Walk with Robert Thorson	Meet at Keyes Rd to carpool.
	1. The Making of Walden Pond, Robert Thorson, Professor of Geology, University of Connecticut
Thurs 4-5:30 pm	Presentations	Masonic
Main Level	Saving Thoreau’s Birthplace: How Citizens Rallied to Bring Henry Out of the Woods, Lucille Stott
Lower Level	1. Henry David Thoreau in Defense of Uncivil Disobedience, James Mathew, MD
	2. Ignoring ‘Fort Sumter, & Old Abe, & all that’: Lincoln, Thoreau and the Myths of Abolitionism, Susan Gallagher, PhD, Associate Professor Emeritus, UMass Lowell
	3. Concord Community and Emerson's Antislavery Movement, Izumi Ogura, Daito Bunka University
Thurs 5:30-7:30 pm	Dinner on your own
Thurs 7:30-9 pm	Emerson Society Panel Transcendentalism: Men and Women Conversing, Part I, co-sponsored by the Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Louisa May Alcott Societies	Masonic
	1. The Vexed Nature of Home: Concord in 1845, Sarah Ann Wider
	2. Margaret Fuller and John Neal Conversing, Fritz Fleischmann, Professor of English, Babson College
	3. Helen Thoreau’s Brother Henry and Lucretia Mott, Audrey Raden, PhD, New York Theological Seminary
	4. Darkened Domesticity: The Sturgis Sisters in Dialogue with Emersonian Poetics, Kathy Lawrence, PhD, Aff. Associate Professor, Department of English, Georgetown University
Thurs 9-10 pm	Emerson Society Social: Honoring Leslie Wilson	Masonic
	F R I D A Y, JULY 12, 2018
Fri 6:30 am	A Walk to Thoreau’s Boiling Spring & Deep Cut, Henrik Otterberg, Corinne Smith, and Bob Young	Meet at Keyes Rd to carpool.
Fri 8 am	Registration	Masonic
Fri 8:45-10:15 am	Presentations	Masonic
Main Level	1. Henry's Best Science, Robert Thorson, Professor of Geology, University of Connecticut
	2. I Should Like to Invent Useful Machinery, J. William T. "Bill" Youngs
	3. Thoreau the Surveyor from the perspective of a modern day surveyor, David Lee Ingram, Professional Land Surveyor
	4. Living with Future Shock from Thoreau to the Present, Pamela Mack, Professor of History, Clemson University
Lower Level	1. Henry D. Thoreau and Basic Income, Brent Ranalli, Research Scholar, Ronin Institute; Editor, Thoreau Society Bulletin
	2. Thoreau in his extremes: technology as a way of reproducing the “quiet desperation”, Ferenc Szabó, Doctoral student, University of Szeged
	3. Thoreau and the U.S. Elections: The Mechanics of How to Vote With Your Life, Joanna Greenfield, MFA
	4. Wallace Kaufman’s Coming Out of the Woods: An Anti-pastoral Response to Thoreau and Technology, Richard J. Schneider
Fri 10:30-12 pm	Presentations	Masonic
Main Level	Transcendentalism: Men and Women Conversing, Part II, co-sponsored by the Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Louisa May Alcott Societies
	1. Rewriting the Life of an ‘Ultra-Radical’: Ralph Waldo Emerson on Margaret Fuller in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Alice de Galzain, University of Edinburgh, Ph.D. Student
	2. Woman Conversing: Feminine Philosophers at the Concord School of Philosophy, Tiffany K. Wayne, PhD
	3. Let It Be Known: Fuller’s Voice in Emerson’s Work on Women’s Rights, Jennifer N Daly, Doctor of Letters candidate, Drew University
	4. Standing Her Ground: Caroline Healey Dall and the Male Transcendentalists, Helen R. Deese
Lower Level	1. Chopped & Reconstructed: How the Early Publishing History of Thoreau’s Journal Reveals an Engineered Canonization, William Coughlin
	2. The Engineering of Henry David Thoreau’s Reputation in Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Moods’, Tracey A. Cummings, PhD, Associate Professor of English, Lock Haven University
	3. Thoreau’s Cabin and the Art of Carpentry: In his Days and Today, Nikita Pokrovsky, Dr.Sc, Professor and Head, Department of General Sociology, National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Russia
	4. Thoreau Fever and Walden Phenomenon in China, Julia Du, PhD
Fri 12-1 pm	Lunch: Catered by Saltbox Kitchen, farm to table	Masonic

Fri 1-2 pm	Presentations	Masonic
Main Level	1. The Thoreau Pencil: A New Look at Sources & Composition, Henrik Otterberg, PhD
	2. Printing Thoreau on Period Presses, Randy Newcomer, Typesetter at Conestoga Press
Lower Level	1. Re-Engineering Thoreau: Seeing Ecclesiastes in Walden, Natasha Shabat
Fri 1-2 pm	Special Event: Fellowship Reception Reception with Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship Awardee David K. Leff for the Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship Jake A. McGinnis for the Graduate Student Fellowship	Thoreau Institute
Fri 2:15-3:45 pm	Presentations	Masonic
Main Level	The Innermost House Foundation Panel The Transparent Eyeball: The Art of Photography as the Technology of Transcendentalism
	1. Transcendental Douglass, John Stauffer, Professor of English and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University
	2. Transcendentalism Gone West: Ansel Adams and the End of History, Michael Lorence, Innermost House
	3. The Transcendental Moment, Melinda Levin, Professor of Media Arts at the University of North Texas
Lower Level	1. “May we not see God?”: Henry David Thoreau’s Doctrine of Spiritual Senses, Lydia Willsky-Ciollo, PhD, Fairfield University
	2. The Engineering of the Senses: Thoreau, Politics, and Literary Form, Alex Moskowitz, Doctoral Candidate, Boston College
	3. Sympathy with Intelligence: Thoreau's Scientific Practice, William Homestead, MA, Communication Studies; MS, Environmental Studies; MFA Creative Writing, Associate Professor, New England College
	4. The Divided Thoreau: Romantic poet, or Seminal Scientist/Forest Ecologist?, David Gordon, PhD, Instructor in Philosophy and Ethics at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
Fri 2:15-3:45 pm	Special Event: Concord Free Public Library Presentation 1. Farewell open house with Leslie Wilson, Curator of the William Munroe Special Collections of the Concord Free Public Library	CFPL
Fri 4-5:30 pm	Presentations	Masonic
Main Level	Sponsored by SUNY Geneseo, The Thoreau Society, and the Walden Woods Project
	1. Reverse Engineering Thoreau, Paul Schacht, Professor of English, SUNY Geneseo
Lower Level	1. Thoreau as Mythic Engineer, Keith Badger, MST
	2. Formal Elements: Thoreau's Textual Technologies, Karah Mitchell, Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill
	3. “Yankee in Canada,” Cape Cod, and Thoreau’s Re-engineered America, Jake McGinnis, PhD Student, University of Notre Dame
	4. Thoreau in Minnesota: An assessment of the naturalist as field ornithologist, Gordon Andersson, PhD, Instructor in Philosophy and Ethics at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
Fri 4-5:30 pm	Special Event: Perspectives of Henry's Pond in Winter: Surveying Procedures, Drafting Techniques, Tools and Tricks of Thoreau's Trade, Kim Buchheit, at William Munroe Special Collections of the Concord Free Public Library (workshop on Thoreau’s Surveying of Walden Pond)	Masonic
Fri 5:30-7:30 pm	Dinner on your own
Fri 7:30-8:30 pm	Special Event: Musical Concert with violinist Helen Sherrah-Davies Helen Sherrah Davies: After many years as a classical performer and educator in her native Britain, five-string violinist and composer Helen Sherrah-Davies relocated to Boston,graduated from Berklee College of Music and is currently pursuing her Masters in Contemporary Improvisation at the New England Conservatory. StarStuff, her debut recording as a leader, is the fruit of her remarkable transatlantic quest, the fulfillment of a vibrant and seasoned artistic vision. Darol Anger, acclaimed fiddler, has described Helen’s music as “so strong, it approaches the status of anew sentient being.... Even in the most thorny, complex episodes, we are moved to care, laugh and rejoice, washed by waves of melodic love.” Helen’s other stateside performing credits include Christiane Karam’s Middle Eastern fusion band ZiLZALA, the Underground Jazz String Quartet, the drumming group Inanna and many other collaborations at venues and festivals around the Northeast region.	First Parish
	S A T U R D A Y, JULY 13, 2018
Sat 6:30 am	Great Meadows Walk with Peter Alden	Meet at Keyes Rd to carpool
Sat 7- 8:30 am	Memorial Walk at Walden Pond with Corinne Smith	Meet at Cabin Replica
Sat 9-10:30 am	Annual membership/business meeting of the Thoreau Society.	First Parish
Sat 10:45-Noon	Dana S. Brigham Memorial Keynote Address Henry Petroski, Author of The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance "Engineering Before and During the Time of Thoreau"	First Parish
Sat 12-1 pm	Lunch: Catered by Saltbox Kitchen, farm to table	First Parish
Sat 1:15-2:15 pm	Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence in Nature Writing	Masonic
	Deborah Cramer will honor Mary Oliver, 2019 Thoreau Prize Winner (http://www.deborahcramer.com)
Sat 1:30 pm	Registration	Masonic
Sat 2:30-3:45 pm	Mary Oliver Panel - Tentative	Masonic
Sat 4-5:30 pm	Presentations	Masonic
Main Level	Panel Sponsored by ASLE: The Association for the Study of Literature and EnvironmentEngineering for the Planet, Rochelle Johnson, Chair
	1. Engineering the Self in Walden and Walden Two, Michelle Neely, Assistant Professor of English, Connecticut College
	2. Thoreau Alone Again, Mark Noble, Associate Professor, Georgia State University
	3. Thoreau's Eco-Erotics, Cristin Ellis, Associate Professor of English, University of Mississippi
	4. Thoreau’s Philosophy of Description, Dominic Mastroianni, Associate Professor of English, Clemson University
	5. Respondent: Rochelle Johnson, PhD, Professor of English & Environmental Studies, College of Idaho
Lower Level	1. Geraniums & Gentians: The Herbariums of Emily Dickinson & Henry David Thoreau, Ann Beebe, PhD, Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at Tyler
	2. How Art Technology Inspires Life: Thoreau Reacts to Painted Panoramas, Corinne Smith
	3.“Some Incidents Greatly Exaggerated”: Mabel Loomis Todd’s Pebble Painted by Sophia of the Cabin at Walden (or Not), Mary Jo Downey, PhD, English and Literature instructor, SUNY Delhi
	4. Thoreau’s smallest scale drawing: maps in the late Journal, Dennis Noson
Sat 6:00-7:30 pm	Banquet Dinner and Reception for the Keynote Speaker, Henry Petroski Piano by Andrew Celentano	Colonial Inn
Sat 7:30 pm	Book-signing	Masonic
Sat 9 pm	Music Circle	Masonic
	S U N D A Y, JULY 14, 2018
Sun 7:30-10am	Special Event: Canoeing with Connection: Insights from Paddlers Past and Present with Deborah Medenbach	Meet at Keyes Road to carpool.
Sun 8 am	Registration	Masonic
	Sunday Morning Workshops and Discussion Groups Please join us for interactive discussions at the Masonic Temple
Sun 9-10 am	Presentations	Masonic
Main Level	Renée Silvus, Transcend and Include, Thoreau as Surveyor and Integralist	Masonic
Sun 10-12 pm	Special Event: Field Trip: Inspirational Morning Saunter at Thoreau Farm with Corinne Smith	Thoreau Farm
Sun 10 am	Sunday Sermon First Parish Transcendentalist Friendships, Rev. Dr. Jim Sherblom, Unitarian Universalist minister
Sun 10:15-11:15 am	Presentations	Masonic
Main Level	1. Thoreau’s Walking Stick, Fly Wheel of Imagination, Leslie Bartlett, Sandy Bay Historical Society and Museums, Rockport on Cape Ann
Lower Level	1. Searching for Thoreau: Exploring Technology to Disseminate a Nature-Based Ethos, Beverly Salas, M.Ed., National Writing Project Consultant
Sun 11:30-12:15 pm	Presentations	Masonic
Main Level	1. A Gathering of Poets on Henry David Thoreau, David K. Leff
Lower Level	1. “‘Without Further Ado . . . 'and ‘On Your Way Out . . .’: Introductions, Prefaces, and Afterwords to Thoreau’s Writings, Joseph Hutcheson, English Instructor, Kennett Consolidated School District
Sun 12:30-2 pm	Thoreau Farm Picnic	Thoreau Farm
Sun 2:30-5 pm	Thoreau Society and Orchard House Panel Laura Dassow Walls, Phyllis Cole, Helen Deese	Location TBD
Sun 7-9:30 pm	Film Screening and Panel Discussion Surveyor of the Soul, Huey with Laura Dassow Walls	Concord Museum