Past Events

Lewis Hyde - The Write Connection

A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past - SOLD OUT

Date: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - 7:00pm
Location: 
Thoreau Farm, 341 Virginia Road, Concord

Hyde will discuss his celebrated new book, A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past.

Heidi Jon Schmidt

Sold Out - Heidi Jon Schmidt, Listening for the Different Drumbeat

Date: 
Saturday, October 19, 2019 - 10:00am to Sunday, October 20, 2019 - 2:00pm
Location: 
Thoreau Farm, 341 Virginia Road, Concord

WRITING WORKSHOP FILLED! Email info@thoreaufarm.org to get on our waiting list. In this two-day workshop, Schmidt will help participants discover their own paths toward effective and original writing.

John Hanson Mitchell - The Write Connection

John Hanson Mitchell, How to Write Deliberately

Date: 
Saturday, September 28, 2019 - 2:00pm
Location: 
Thoreau Farm, 341 Virginia Road, Concord

Our keynote speaker for the Write Connection, Mitchell will offer ideas on how to write with purpose and passion.

Nature: A Walking Play

Nature: A Walking Play

Date: 
Friday, September 13, 2019 - 5:30pm to Sunday, September 29, 2019 - 5:30pm
Location: 
The Old Manse, 269 Monument Street, Concord, MA

The Trustees and TigerLion Arts present Nature, a mythic retelling of Emerson and Thoreau’s mutual love affair with the natural world.

ASLE - Engineering for the Planet

Date: 
Saturday, July 13, 2019 - 4:00pm
Location: 
Thoreau Society, Annual Gathering, 58 Monument Square, Concord, MA

Panel Sponsored by The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

Engineering for the Planet, Rochelle Johnson, panel chair

1. Engineering the Self in Walden and Walden Two, Michelle Neely, Assistant Professor of English, Connecticut College

Mary Oliver

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

Helen Sherrah-Davies

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.

Engraving of Walt Whitman by William Hollyer, 1854 (Source: Library of Congress)

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.
 
Thoreau Society

ALA - Teaching Thoreau

Date: 
Saturday, May 25, 2019 - 3:30pm
Location: 
American Literature Association, Copley Place, Boston, MA

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