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.
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.