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The Free Press of the University of Southern Maine
April 23, 2018
A study room in the library of the Gorham campus was transformed into an artistic space to celebrate the bicentennial of the famous essayist, Henry David Thoreau. A pop-up course called Thoreau 200, taught by Professor Lisa Giles, celebrated the opening ceremony of the new study space by studentsÃâà...
New York Times
April 17, 2018
Henry David Thoreau delivered a lecture on “resistance to civil government” that would acquire the post-mortem title “Civil Disobedience.” He wonders: “How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.” ThoreauÃâà...
Pacific Standard
April 13, 2018
But in the darkening waters of Walden Pond, scientists observe more than the loss of a lake: They see the decline of one of America's most important cultural and literary locations. It was at Walden Pond that the writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau set up his cabin in the 19th century, in an attempt toÃâà...
Smithsonian
April 9, 2018
In 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year stay in a small cabin near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. In his famed book inspired by the stay, Walden, Thoreau describes the place as a quiet, pristine pond in a wooded sanctuary where he lived in solitude. But the place has undoubtedlyÃâà...
The Guardian
April 6, 2018
The water of Walden Pond, which Henry David Thoreau described in 1854 as “so transparent that the bottom can easily be discerned at the depth of 25 or 30 feet”, is no longer quite so clear according to a new study. The Massachusetts pond was made famous in Walden, the transcendentalist writer'sÃâà...
NBCNews.com
April 6, 2018
“These findings suggest that, although mitigation efforts have curtailed anthropogenic nutrient inputs to Walden Pond, the lake has not returned to the pre-impact condition described by Henry David Thoreau and may become increasingly vulnerable to further changes in water quality in a warmer andÃâà...
CNET
April 5, 2018
Plenty of people have taken a whiz in Walden Pond since writer Henry David Thoreau sat by its shores 160-plus years ago lost in contemplation. And that, according to a new study, is just one way humans have taken a toll on the iconic body of water. "The sediments of Walden Pond record major ecologicalÃâà...
smallwarsjournal
March 27, 2018
“...the 'winners of globalization,' represented by multinational corporations and global elites, are seeking to remove themselves from the regulatory, taxation, and, ultimately, political authority of states. This is done by promoting an extra-sovereign economy: using foreign tax havens, playing states off against each other toÃâà...
Cape Cod Times
March 27, 2018
One-hundred-seventy-three years ago this month, Henry David Thoreau, 28, took his ax down to the still chilly shore of Walden Pond in Concord and began cutting down pine trees with which to frame his famous cabin. It was an iconic American moment, embodying youth, hope, can-do spirit. It's my favoriteÃâà...
BU Today
March 22, 2018
Primack explains his 15-year effort to use Henry David Thoreau's unpublished 1850s field notes to compare the arrival of springtime in New England as an indicator of accelerating climate change. His research team has found that, over the past 160 years, the average leaf emergence date of 43 woodyÃâà...
Wicked Local
March 20, 2018
Drop by the Thoreau house replica near the Walden Pond State Reservation main parking lot to discover from a park interpreter how and why Henry David Thoreau lived “a deliberate life” in Walden for two years, two months and two days. The woodstove will be going as attendees hear tales about Henry'sÃâà...
Wicked Local
March 20, 2018
Two of the items being auctioned off by The Thoreau Society and the Thoreau Farm Trust are shown Monday, March 19, 2018. At the bottom is a pencil “remainder” from the Thoreau pencil factory and the photo is a hi-res scan from the daguerrotype taken of Henry David Thoreau in 1856 by Benjamin D.
Berkshire Eagle
March 19, 2018
It's a growing movement across the country, particularly on college campuses. Concord did it in 2012 amid lawsuit threats from the water bottling industry. The birthplace of Henry David Thoreau was the first town in the U.S. to enact a bylaw that the committee has used as a model for the one it has placed onÃâà...
New Republic
March 19, 2018
With his love of nature and hermetic life, Hagerman belongs to a venerable American tradition that goes back to Henry David Thoreau, who was also a media-phobe and complained about the news. “I am sure I never read any memorable news in a newspaper,” Thoreau sniffed in Walden (1854).
Surface Magazine
March 16, 2018
Henry David Thoreau was never really alone at Walden. His cabin was in sight of the main road that cut past Walden Pond. Trains on their way to Boston rattled past the lake. He ate dinner with his family once a week, and often invited curious guests to visit his one-room sanctum and to spend an afternoonÃâà...
The Boston Globe
March 15, 2018
Thoreau Farm: Birthplace of Henry David Thoreau and the Thoreau Society are holding an online auction for the cabin to raise funds for both organizations. The lucky winner of the cabin will be able to turn every day spent writing, meditating, reading, or painting into their own personal Walden retreat.
Surface Magazine
March 14, 2018
Henry David Thoreau was never really alone at Walden. His cabin was in sight of the main road that cut past Walden Pond. Trains on their way to Boston rattled past the lake. He ate dinner with his family once a week, and often invited curious guests to visit his one-room sanctum and to spend an afternoonÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 10, 2018
When you get your drink, head upstairs to the agora, or amphitheater-like, floor-to-ceiling white space inspired by the writer Henry David Thoreau's “Walden.” It's this space that makes Walden Woods different, experimental, and at first kind of awkward. The seats are essentially bleachers that look out on toÃâà...
njarts.net
March 9, 2018
To this day, “Commercial Avenue” and “Henry David Thoreau” remain two of my favorite songs released by a Jersey band because they are as much fun as they are intellectual, as well as playful, both musically and lyrically. After going to see The Wooden Soldiers perform the record live and sell copies of itÃâà...
WCAI
March 6, 2018
About half a million people visit Walden Pond State Reservation annually. Many come because of Henry David Thoreau's book, “Walden,” which remains at least as popular as it was one hundred and fifty years ago. Why does Thoreau continue to resonate with readers? And how did a pond that ThoreauÃâà...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
March 6, 2018
To paraphrase pioneer naturalist Henry David Thoreau, “Many men spend their whole life fishing and never realize it's not the fish they are after.” If there is one group of anglers who most typify this concept, I'd give my vote to that army of trout hunters who yearn for the high country of California's EasternÃâà...
Haaretz
February 9, 2018
In “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,” which Henry David Thoreau wrote against the backdrop of his opposition to slavery (another immoral institution that was protected by the law), he crafts a basic rule on this matter: “If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go,Ãâà...
Sojourners
February 7, 2018
EVEN AFTER 200 years, Henry David Thoreau continues to be a controversial (and, to some, annoying) figure. In a 2015 New Yorker article titled “Pond Scum,” Kathryn Schulz eviscerates the 19th century author of Walden, describing him as “self-obsessed: narcissistic, fanatical about self control.” Schulz is not alone in herÃâà...
Seattle Times
December 31, 1999
CONCORD, Mass. (AP) — Anyone who wants to lead the contemplative life of writer, naturalist and philosopher Henry David Thoreau can now do so in their very own replica of his Walden Pond cabin. The Thoreau Society and Thoreau Farm in Concord, Massachusetts, are auctioning the replica , built lastÃâà...
Sacramento Bee
December 31, 1999
Naturalist and philosopher Henry David Thoreau famously realized that “heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads” at Walden Pond, but scientists analyzing the Massachusetts waterway have made a far less pleasant discovery. Generations of swimmers at the pond have fouled the water withÃâà...
