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Program
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July 11, Tuesday
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4-7:30 PM
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Registration
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Masonic
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5 PM
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Dinner on your own
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7:30-9 PM
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Performance: Singular Characters; Hawthorne and Thoreau
Richard Smith and Rob Velella
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Masonic
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Wednesday, July 12
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6:30 AM
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Sunrise Walk with Henry
Richard Smith
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Meet at Cabin Replica
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Sessions at First Parish
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First Parish
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8:00 AM
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Registration and Refreshments
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9:00 AM
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Welcoming Remarks, Michael Frederick
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9:15-10:15 AM
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Essentially Revolutionary: Thoreau's Radical Moment—and Ours
Wen Stephenson
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10:30-11:30 AM
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PEN New England presentation of Thoreau Prize for Nature Writing
to Sy Montgomery
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11:30 AM
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PEN New England Book-signing
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Noon
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Catered Lunch: Pre-registration Required
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1-3 PM
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PEN New England round table on Thoreau's literary legacy
moderated by Christopher Lydon with Deborah Cramer, Jennifer Haigh, John Kaag, and Megan Marshall
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Henry’s Birthday Celebration
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3:10 PM
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Bus Service to Thoreau Farm at Thoreau Farm
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3:30-5:00 PM
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Birthday Celebration at Thoreau Farm:
Birthplace of Henry D. Thoreau |
Thoreau Farm
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5:10 PM
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Bus Service from Thoreau Farm to Colonial Inn
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5:30 PM
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Reception
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Colonial Inn
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6:00 PM
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Dinner Banquet
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Colonial Inn
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Evening Address
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7:30 PM
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Evening Talk
Thoreau’s Wild America: From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump, Douglas Brinkley
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First Parish
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Exhibits
Transcendental Concord, a photography exhibit by Lisa McCarty
Thoreau’s Journal Drawings: A Poster Session with Ernesto Estrella Cozar, Kimberly Dacorogna, Mark Gallagher, Richard Higgins, Natalya Jean, Kathleen Coyne Kelly, and Bob Young
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9:00 PM
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Young Scholars Social
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Colonial Inn Tavern
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July 13, Thursday
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Walks
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6:45-8:15 AM
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Walking Thoreau's Home Ground - Great Meadows
with Cherrie Corey
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Keyes Road town lot
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6:45-8:15 AM
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Walk at Walden Pond
with Robert Thorson
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Meet at House Replica
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8:00 AM
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Registration & Refreshments
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Masonic
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8:45-10:15 AM
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Session I
Panel at Main Level
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Walking the Mythical Path: Thoreau’s Old Marlborough Road, David M. Robinson
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On the Path of A Yankee in Canada, Jean Cloutier
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A Week on the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers: Thoreau's 1861 Minnesota Journey Revisited, David R. Solheim
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Masonic
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Panel at Lower Level
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Impact of Thoreau in India, Jay Amaran
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Readings of Thoreau in Japanese Circle, Yoshiko Ito
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Configuring and Reconfiguring a Literary Master: The Legacy and Changing Images of Thoreau in Taiwan, Te-hsing Shan
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Thoreau's Interpretation of Price, Richard A. Michelfelder
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10:30-Noon
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Session II
Panel at Main Level
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Thoreau's Cabin Re-examined: with new architectural insights provided by the Vose-Thoreau Letters, John Goff
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Nature's Apostles: Henry David Thoreau, Native Americans, and the "Wild" Theology of Nature, Lydia Willsky-Ciollo
- Of Shanties and Chanticleers: Some Contextual & Paratextual Notes to Walden’s 1854 Title-Page, Henrik Otterberg
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Sounding the Seasons: Thoreau’s Journal as a Listening Experience, Ernesto Estrella
Panel at Lower Level
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Timber Framer Thoreau Cabin Pipeline Barricade, Will Elwell
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Thoreau & Edward Abbey, Eco-Anarchist, Joseph J. Moldenhauer
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(Re-)Living Walden: Deliberate Writing from Skarvaredet to Walden North, Sheila Post
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HDT and Louisa May Alcott, Chrystena Hahn
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Masonic
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Noon
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Catered Lunch
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Masonic
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1-2 PM
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Session III
Presentation at Main Level
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Thoreauvian Light: Observations and Lessons Learned Illustrating Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, Cape Cod and The Maine Woods, Scot Miller
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Thoreau’s Birds as Autobiography, Tom Potter
Presentation at Lower Level
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Masonic
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1-2 PM
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Thoreau Room Session
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Colonial Inn
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2:15-3:45 PM
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Session IV
Panel at Main Level Climate Change Sponsored by Thoreau Farm
- Panel Chair Keith Bergman
- Thoreau’s phenology records can be used to show the biological impacts of climate change, Richard B. Primack
- Henry Thoreau and the Fall of a Noble Pine, Brian Donahue
- "Then are the birds": ecological mismatch between plants, insects, and birds Thoreau's Concord, Amanda Gallinat
- Thoreau’s scientific legacy and current research on Walden Pond, Curt Stager
Panel at Lower Level
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Children Connect Language Through Nature and Thoreau, Ann E. Densmore
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Sauntering the Year with Henry David Thoreau, Donna Marie Przybojewski
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Will This Be on the Test? Pondering Thoreau’s Paradoxical Views on Education to Reform Our Schools, Colleen A. Ruggieri
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Surrounded by love: The Influence of Sarah, Elisabeth, Maria, Jane, Cynthia, Helen, and Sophia Thoreau on Henry David, Kathy Fedorko
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Masonic
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2:15-3:45 PM
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Thoreau Room Session
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Stranger in a Strange Land: Taking Henry's Arm Across the Ages, Diana Lorence and Richard Smith
- A Hound, a Bay Horse, and a Turtle Dove: On the Trail of a Mystery, Michael Lorence
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Colonial Inn
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4:00-5:30 PM
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Session V
Panel at Main Level
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Biological Aesthetics: Thoreau, Gender, and Botany, Patrick Thomas Morgan
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Henry David Thoreau’s Echoes in Mary Oliver’s Ecopoetry, Anastasia Cardone
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The Coarsest or Noblest of Humanity: A Virtue Ethics Analysis of Thoreau's Ambivalence towards Hunting, Brendan Mahoney
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My Friend Henry, Tom O'Malley
Panel at Lower Level
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Animals of Concord v. Henry David Thoreau, Geoff Wisner
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"When they say farewell then we begin to keep them company": The Transcendental Friendship of Thoreau and Whitman. Audrey Raden
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A Lineage of the Secret Language in the Writings of Thoreau and Williams, Shinji Iwamasa
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Henry Thoreau and contemporary philosophy and practices of de-urbanization, Nikita Pokrovsky
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Masonic
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4-5:30 PM
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Thoreau Room Presentation
- Civil Disobedience, Spiritual Activism and Higher Law, Connie Baxter Marlow
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Colonial Inn
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4-5:30 PM
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Walk
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Meet at front steps of Masonic
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6:00 PM
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Dinner on your own
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7:30 PM
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Emerson Society Panel
- Thoreau’s Influence on Emerson, Roger Thompson
- Emerson’s Thoreauvian Ear and the Music of the Spheres, Christina Katopodis
- Where Do We Find Ourselves?’: The Experience of Idealism in Emerson & Thoreau, David Heckerl
- F. L. Wright as Measure and Mirror of Emerson’s Influence on Thoreau, Ayad Rahmani
- No Truer American: Thoreau’s Influence on Emerson’s Later Lectures, Mark Gallagher
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Masonic
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9 PM
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Emerson Society Social
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Masonic
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July 14, Friday
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Walks
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6:45-8:15 AM
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Walking Thoreau’s Home Ground-Gowing’s Swamp (Thoreau’s Bog)
with Cherrie Corey
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Keyes Road town lot
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6:45-8:15 AM
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Walk to Beaver pond in Estabrook Woods
with Peter Alden
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Keyes Road town lot
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8:00 AM
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Registration at Masonic
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Masonic
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8:45-10:30 AM
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Session VI
Panel at Main Level
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Henry D. Thoreau: the Beginning of Thoreau’s Great Narrative of Self, Albena Bakratcheva
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Thoreau and the Spontaneous Generation Controversy, Yeojin Kim
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Chasing Hound, Horse & Dove: A Poetry Reading & Talk, Catherine Staples
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Before STEM: Henry David Thoreau and his Unlikely Synthesis of Disciplines, John F. Barthell
Panel at Lower Level
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Kindred Spirits: Comparing and Contrasting Henry David Thoreau and John Muir, J. Wiliam T. Youngs
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“A Newer Testament”: Humboldtian Science and Thoreau’s Book of Nature, Lucas Nossaman
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Thoreau and Gonzo-Transcendentalism, Matt DeNuzzo
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Thoreau, Race and Environmental Justice: Deepening the Conversation, Rebecca Kneale Gould
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Masonic
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10:30-Noon
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Session VII
Panel at Main Level
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Dickinson and Thoreau’s Utopian Dialogue, Leslie Eckel
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The Cloud and the Glacier: Imagery of the Intangible in the Poetry of Thoreau and Moore, Michael Schrimper
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Thoreau, Bishop, and Fuller: An Unlikely Trio?, Megan Marshall
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“Italian Nobody” and other works: a reading of four transcendentally inspired poems, Joyce Peseroff
Panel at Lower Level
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Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors Meet Henry David Thoreau, Lauren Hehmeyer & Phyllis Deal
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Thoreau's manic-depression, Nassir Ghaemi, MD
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Henry David Thoreau and Mohandas K. Gandhi, James Mathew, MD
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Henry David Thoreau, Yogi, Richard H. Davis
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Masonic
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10:30-Noon
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Thoreau with Compass and Chain
with Richard Leu
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Masonic Lobby
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12:00 PM
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Catered Lunch
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Masonic
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1-2 PM
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Session VIII
Presentations at Main Level
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What would Henry think of today's environmental challenges?, Peter Alden
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Business Lessons from Henry David Thoreau, Ken Lizotte
Presentations at Lower Level
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The Great Turning - And Why It Matters, Charles Philips
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The Pond Primeval: Phosporous and Oxygen at Walden Pond, John M. (Jack) Nevison
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Masonic
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1-2 PM
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Thoreau Room Session
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Colonial Inn
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2:15-3:45 PM
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Session IX
Panel at Main Level
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Thoreau and the “Diversity of Tactics"": Reassessing “Civil Disobedience” in the Era of Occupy and Black Lives Matter, Daniel R. Vollaro
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Honey, What Are You Saying?, Katrina Byrd
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Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, Huckleberries & Rhode Island's Dorr Rebellion of 1841-43, Nancy Austin
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“Civil Disobedience” in the Nuclear Age: Thoreau and Solnit’s “Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West”, Shoko Itoh
Panel at Lower Level
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Thoreau and the Liberal Arts, Joseph M. Johnson
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“Odd Man In: Thoreau, the Lyceum Movement, and the Lecture Circuit”, Ron Hoag
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Thoreau and the King: Sufficiency Economy and the Renewal of Spiritual Connections in Thailand during the Reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Tuangtip Klinbubpa-Neff
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Masonic
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2:15-3:45 PM
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Thoreau Room Session
- Writing and Thinking in Present Tense: Creative Writing workshop inspired on Thoreau’s Journal, Ernesto Estrella
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Colonial Inn
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4-5:30 PM
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Session X
Panel at Main Level
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Thoreau and the Boston Society of Natural History in "Natural History of Massachusetts", Fumiko Takeno
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The Happiness Generators- Henry's Legacy for Finding Joy, Ted David
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How We Spend Our Lives: Thoreau and Social Advocacy, Charmion Gustke
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Measuring Thoreau: Reconsidering the Naturalist’s Hope for an Ideal Culture, Michael Stoneham
Panel at Lower Level
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Thoreau's Walden Map: Literal Depiction or Literary Device?, Dennis Noson
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Language of Paradox in Thoreau and Emerson, Izumi Ogura
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The Concept of "Natural History" in Thoreau's Late Work, Evan Edwards
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The Circular Images in “Ethan Brand” and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Yoko Kurahashi, MD
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Masonic
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4-5 PM
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Thoreau Room Session
- From the Sudbury to the Susquehanna to the Smithsonian: Amateur Natural History and the Rise of Science, Rochelle Johnson
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Colonial Inn
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5:30 PM
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Dinner on your own
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7 PM
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Formal exhibition opening and reception for the presenter
Thoreau Family Music
Refreshments
Our True Paradise: Thoreau’s Concord and the Ecstasy of the Commons,
Laura Dassow Walls
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Concord Free Public Library
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July 15, Saturday
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Walks
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6:45 AM
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Walk from Fairhaven Bay to Walden & back
with Peter Alden
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Keyes Road town lot
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7-8:30 AM
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Memorial Walk at Walden Pond
with Corinne Smith
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Meet at House Replica
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8:00 AM
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Refreshments at First Parish
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Parish Hall
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9:00 AM
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Business Meeting
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Sanctuary
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10:45 AM
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Dana S. Brigham Memorial Keynote Speaker: Terry Tempest Williams
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Sanctuary
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12:00 PM
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Registration Opens at Masonic
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Masonic
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12:00 PM
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Catered Lunch
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Parish Hall
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1-2 PM
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Session XI
Panel at Main Level
Panel at Lower Level
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Book Release Celebrating Thoreau at 200: Essays and Reassessments, moderated by Kristen Case with panelists Rochelle Johnson, Lawrence Buell, and James Finley.
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Masonic
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2:15-3:45 PM
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Session XII
Panel: Nineteenth-Century Prose Thoreau Bicentennial Essays at Main Level
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Panel Chair, Richard Schneider,
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"Wild Apples” and Thoreau’s Commitment to Wildness in the Last Decade of His Life, Albena Bakratcheva
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The Samarae of Thought: Thoreau's Gathered Timescapes, Laura Dassow Walls
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Living Poems in Thoreau's Prose, Elizabeth Lerud
Panel at Lower Level
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"Let Me Suggest a Few Comparisons": Getting Thoreauvian Aphorisms Back Into Their Paragraphs, Brian Bartlett
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No Streams to Go A-Fishing In: Natural Time in a Digiphrenic Culture, Tom Montgomery Fate
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Thoreau’s Lifelong Indian Play and His Concept of Character Formation, Brent Ranalli
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“We Linger in Manhood to Tell the Dreams of Our Childhood”: Playful Thoreau, Maura D'Amore
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Masonic
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4-5 PM
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Session XIII
Roundtable at Main Level
- Putting Thoreau in Context, moderated by James Finley
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Stan Tag
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Ron Hoag
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Laura Dassow Walls
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Kristen Case
- Richard Schneider
Panel at Lower Level
- Walden Pond People, Natasha Shabat
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Masonic
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5:15 PM
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Bus to Thoreau Institute
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Meet on steps of Masonic
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5:30-6 PM
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Reception for Terry Tempest Williams
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Thoreau Institute
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6-7:30 PM
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Thoreau Institute Dinner Banquet
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Thoreau Institute
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7:30 PM
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Bus to Masonic
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7:30 PM
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Book-signing
Music Circle with Jeff Hinich, Bring an instrument or a song to sing
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Sunday, July 16
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Walks and Canoe Trip
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7 AM
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Walk around Ball's Hill with Peter Alden
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Keyes Road town lot
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7-10 AM
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Canoeing on the Concord River
with Deborah Medenbach
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Keyes Road town lot
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8:00 AM
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Registration Opens at Masonic
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Masonic
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10-Noon
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Inspirational Morning Saunter at Thoreau Birthplace
with Corinne Smith
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Thoreau Farm
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9:30-10:45 PM
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Session XIV
Panel at Main Level
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Possible Sites of a House? Thoreau's Philosophical Senses, Eric Joseph Ritter
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Thoreau's Agrarianism, Daniel D. Clausen
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The Thoreau we do not yet know?, Stuart Weeks
Panel at Lower Level
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Masonic
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10 AM
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Sunday Service at First Parish Church |
First Parish
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11-12:30 PM
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Session XV
Panel at Main Level
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Thoreau as Shaman: Mediator Between the Human and Non-Human Worlds, Jonathan Butler
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Cosmic Henry, John A. Bullard
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Walden as a Landscape of Genius, Scott Hess
Panel at Lower Level
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“A Smack of Wildness”: Affective Enchantment in Thoreau’s First Taste of the Maine Woods, Jake McGinnis
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The Tide of Fashionable Travel: Thoreau and Early Travelers to Katahdin, Stan Tag
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A Runner's Thoughts on "Walking", Roger W. Hutt
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"Eastward I go only by force; but (Kayne West)ward I go free: Henry Thoreau and his Rhetoric of Transcendentalism in Hip-Hop", Brandon Hernsberger
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Masonic
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11-12:30 PM
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Walden: Four Views and The Anatomy of a Desk: Writing with Thoreau and Emerson at Concord Museum with David Wood
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Concord Museum
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12:30 PM
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Lunch on your own
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1:00-2 PM
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Picnic at Thoreau Farm
Bring your own lunch
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Thoreau Farm
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2:30-5 PM
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Thoreau Society and the Louisa May Alcott Orchard House Present:
Parlor Politics: A Conversation on Concord Women of Conscience with Sandra Petrulionis, Laura Dassow Walls, and Megan Marshall.
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Trinity Episcopal Church
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7-9 PM
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Film Showing
- Surveyer of the Soul, Huey
- Your host, Ron Hoag
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Masonic
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