Starting on March 4 through March 29, 2019, The Thoreau Society and The Thoreau Farm Trust will be auctioning off a number of fun and unique items to bid on to raise money for our organization - and the more items we have the more money we can raise, so we're asking for your help.
Chapel of the Concord Academy, 166 Main Street, Concord
Celebrate the work of Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Mary Oliver, as she receives, in absentia, the 2019 Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence in Nature Writing.
Five-string violinist Helen Sherrah-Davies presents jazz-infected, trans-stylistic and synaesthetic-inspired eclectic originals…We invite you to join us on a creative journey that will include Cats, Candles, Light and Dark, and Elemental Paradox. Helen is honored to be joined by the “folkloric elegance” of guitarist Steve Kirby, and the outstanding bassist Ed Lucie – both faculty members from Berklee College of Music. Read more...
First Parish in Concord, 20 Lexington Rd., Concord, MA
On the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth, join in a celebration of his work at a Whitman Poetry Reading, with commentary by Concord historian Richard Smith. Smith will illustrate the ways in which Concord residents and Transcendentalists, such as Thoreau and Emerson, supported and influenced Whitman.
Westin Copley Place Hotel - Essex Center, Third Floor
Built in 1718 on the site of Anne Hutchinson’s cottage, the Old Corner Bookstore turned 300 last year with little fanfare or fuss. As one approaches it on the Freedom Trail, one finds its most conspicuous, street-level spaces operating as fast-food restaurants. Only two sentences on a tiny plaque take note of its place in the development of American literature.
First Parish in Concord, 20 Lexington Rd., Concord, MA
Shakespearean actor Stephen Collins portrays Walt Whitman in this award-winning one-man-show, “Unlaunch’d Voices” by Michael Z. Keamy. Reception to follow.
Sponsored by The Thoreau Society and the Transcendentalism Council of First Parish in Concord.
