Past Events

It's Your Story: A Memoir Intensive Workshop

Date: 
Sunday, October 11, 2020 - 3:30pm
Location: 
This is a Zoom event

This workshop is taught over three one-hour Zoom meetings. Sundays, October 11, 18, 25, 2020, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm. Tuition: $175.00

Register for this workshop!

Audrey Raden

Thoreau in a Time of Loss

Date: 
Sunday, June 7, 2020 - 2:00pm
Location: 
Webinar

"Thoreau in a Time of Loss" sponsored by The Thoreau Society with interviewer Rochelle Johnson and guest speakers: Audrey Raden and Kristen Case
View the recorded session: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/18NMFeGgzkxOX4XUzB_9GaMrM9j6T6a80ykZ-f...

Richard Higgins, Trees in Thoreau's Concord

Richard Higgins, "Trees in Thoreau’s Concord and Today"

Date: 
Friday, August 30, 2019 - 7:00pm
Location: 
Walden Pond Visitor Center at Walden Pond State Reservation

"Trees in Thoreau's Concord and Today," photographs by Richard Higgins, will be on display at the Walden Pond Visitor Center through August 30, 2019.

Maine Woods cover

Thoreau-Wabanaki Trail Festival, July 24-26

Date: 
Wednesday, July 24, 2019 - 10:00am to Friday, July 26, 2019 - 8:00pm
Location: 
East Cove, Greenville, Maine

The Thoreau Wabanaki Trail Festival promotes the understanding, appreciation, and stewardship of Maine’s unique cultural heritage and natural resources, made famous here in the Moosehead Lake Region. It celebrates naturalist writer Henry David Thoreau’s three trips into the Maine Woods and the culture and heritage of the Wabanaki people.

Punkatasset Hill

Walk with Peter Alden

Date: 
Thursday, July 11, 2019 - 6:30am
Location: 
Punkatasset Hill

Kick off this year's Annual Gathering with a walk around Punkatasset Hill with Peter Alden. Meet at Keyes Rd to carpool.

Henry D. Thoreau

Auction Fun-Raiser

Date: 
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 12:00pm
Location: 
Online

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.

Thoreau Society & Thoreau Farm Auction

Thoreau Society & Thoreau Farm Auction

Date: 
Friday, March 29, 2019 - 12:00pm
Location: 
Thoreau Society Auction Site

Check out our Annual Auction! Now through March 29...

George Copway

Self-Cultivation, Individual Change: A Study of Thoreau's Indian Notebooks

Date: 
Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 2:30pm
Location: 
Thoreau Farm, 341 Virginia Road, Concord

Concord Historical Collaborative Course: Self-Cultivation, Individual Change: A study of Thoreau's Indian notebooks, led by Mike Frederick, Feb 13.

Mary Oliver (left) and Diane Ackerman credit: Dorothy Alexander

Mary Oliver Honored with Dianne Ackerman

Date: 
Friday, November 16, 2018 - 6:00pm
Location: 
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.

Tom Montgomery Fate

Writing Memoir: Tom Montgomery Fate and "The Long Way Home"

Date: 
Tuesday, May 10, 2022 - 7:00pm
Location: 
Zoom

Sandy Stott and Tom Montgomery Fate will discuss Tom's writing process and his forthcoming memoir The Long Way Home.

The Write Connection at Thoreau Farm: A Program in Partnership with the Thoreau Society

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