2019 Thoreau Society Annual Gathering

Annual Gathering Schedule, July 11-14

Engineering Thoreau:  Nature, Technology, and the Connected Life

Keynote Speaker: Henry Petroski,

author of The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance

“It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.” — Henry David Thoreau, “The Pond in Winter,” Walden