Past Events

Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence in Nature Writing

Date:

Saturday, July 13, 2019 - 1:15pm

Location:

Masonic Temple, 58 Monument Square, Concord, MA

Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence in Nature Writing

Concert with violinist Helen Sherrah-Davies

Date:

Friday, July 12, 2019 - 7:30pm

Location:

First Parish Church, Concord, MA

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...

From Path to Page with Lucille & Sandy Stott

Date:

Wednesday, June 19, 2019 - 10:00am

Location:

Thoreau Farm, the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau

This is a two-day nature writing workshop! Saturday June 19, 2021 & Sunday June 20, 2021, 10 am - 4 pm. Tuition: $175

To register for this event, click here!

This workshop is designed to get you thinking about how to bring your outdoor excursions to the page.

Walt Whitman at 200: The Concord Connection

Date:

Friday, May 31, 2019 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location:

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.

ALA - Teaching Thoreau

Date:

Saturday, May 25, 2019 - 3:30pm

Location:

American Literature Association, Copley Place, Boston, MA

ALA - Thoreau and Political Ecology (Helicon)

Date:

Saturday, May 25, 2019 - 9:30am

Location:

American Literature Association, Copley Place, Boston, MA

The Old Corner Bookstore; or Why Is the Most Important Literary Site in Boston A Fast-Food Court

Date:

Thursday, May 23, 2019 - 7:30pm to 9:00pm

Location:

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.

Celebrating the Whitman Bicentennial: An Evening with Walt Whitman

Date:

Saturday, May 4, 2019 - 7:30pm to 9:00pm

Location:

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.

Laura Dassow Walls lecture at BU

Date:

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 - 6:00pm

Location:

Tsai Performance Center, Boston University

Laura Dassow Walls will deliver the 6th Annual Silas Peirce Lecture, "Henry David Thoreau’s Legacy of Resistance and Hope," at Boston University.

Book of Origins: Rude Tales from the Big Bang to the Big Now

Date:

Sunday, February 17, 2019 - 2:00pm

Location:

Thoreau Farm, 341 Virginia Road, Concord

In “The Book of Origins,” Millman explores religion, politics, sex, technology, science, and money. And, through his cold eye, all are equally skewered in this irreverent book of vignettes.

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