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The Barbara L. Packer Fellowship is named for Barbara Lee Packer (1947-2010), who taught with great distinction for thirty years in the UCLA English department. Her publications, most notably Emerson’s Fall (1982) and her lengthy essay on the Transcendentalist movement in the Cambridge History of American Literature (1995), reprinted as The Transcendentalists by the University of Georgia Press (2007), continue to be esteemed by students of Emerson and of the American Renaissance generally. She is remembered as an inspiring teacher, a lively and learned writer,...

Robin Wall Kimmerer to Receive 2021 Thoreau Prize

Watch the recording.

Date: Thursday, April 22, 2021 - 7:00pm

Location: Zoom - 7 pm Eastern

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Auction Thank You

Dear Friends,

The Thoreau Society and Thoreau Farm would like to thank you for your support of our online "fun"-raising auction.

With the help of our donors and bidders, we raised $20,434 for our respective missions and programs. 93% of the auction items received bids with 1,183 total bids placed.

The auction is both a program and a fundraising event. Thoreau fans living around the world participate. One thing we love about the auction is that the Thoreauviana will go to people who will cherish them.

You can...

Forest History Society’s virtual lecture series: Laura Dassow Walls

What: Free Virtual Lecture
Who: Laura Dassow Walls, PhD, University of Notre Dame
Topic: “A Vast and Indefinite Loss”: Henry Thoreau’s Connections
Between Nature and Slavery
When: Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 2 pm EDT.
Where: Watch on YouTube:

Call for Papers

ALA Conference:

July 7-11, 2021 in Boston (...

Peter Alden: "Birds and Mammals in Concord: From Henry’s Time to Today"

Date: Sunday, March 28, 2pm
Location: Zoom Event

The Write Connection at Thoreau Farm: A program in partnership with the Thoreau Society.

Join Peter Alden, Concord native, ornithologist, and author, to learn about the changes over time to Concord’s bird and mammal inhabitants. Peter has written more than 15 books on North American and African wildlife, including the National Audubon Society’s Regional Field Guide Series. He organized the world’s first Biodiversity Days with Dr. Edward O...

David Gessner: "How to Write on the Heels of Experience: Writing about Thoreau and the Pandemic in Real Time"