Online Auction begins March 1, 2023
The Thoreau Society and Thoreau Farm Online Auction begins March 1, 2023. You can support us by donating items to our auction, like this signed copy of Mary Oliver's "Devotions."
Thoreau Society Bulletin 312 | Winter 2021
Contents The Architecture of Self-Isolation: Building Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Pond House in the Maine Woods by Tom Sieniewicz The…
Thoreau Society Bulletin 314 | Summer 2021
Contents Thoreau’s Places Thoreau and Me, Going on Fifty-Six Years The Philosophy of Henry Thoreau: Ethics, Politics, and Nature: A…
Forest History Society’s virtual lecture series: Laura Dassow Walls
Laura Dassow Walls, the award-winning biographer of Henry David Thoreau, will deliver a virtual talk “‘A Vast and Indefinite Loss’: Thoreau’s Reflections on Nature and Slavery” as part of the Forest History Society’s virtual lecture series Unprecedented Seasons.
Auction Thank You
Dear Friends, The Thoreau Society and Thoreau Farm would like to thank you for your support of our online "fun"-raising…
2021 Thoreau Country Conservation Alliance Graduate Student Fellowship
The Thoreau Society is pleased to announce the third annual Thoreau Country Conservation Alliance (TCCA) Graduate Student Fellowship.
2021 Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship
The Thoreau Society is pleased to announce the sixth annual Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship, generously funded by the Harding family.
There is More Day to Dawn
Register for "More Day to Dawn." “'There Is More Day to Dawn': A Global Conversation Celebrating Teaching and Diversity" October…
The Great Tide of Humanity: Race and Gender Reform in 19th Century Concord, Massachusetts
Henry David Thoreau and his fellow Transcendentalists sparked a literary revolution, 60 years after the American Revolution in the tiny…
Thoreau Society Bulletin 310 | Summer 2020
Contents Thoreau and John Brown as Proletarian Heroes: Mike Gold’s Battle Hymn Thoreau and the Economics of Crime and Punishment…
Remembering Bob Galvin, former Thoreau Society Vice President
We announce with sadness the passing of longtime Thoreau Society member Bob Galvin, who served several terms on the TS…
Bicentennial Event: Lecture by Robert Gross
"Henry David Thoreau: Son of Concord," a talk by Robert Gross, June 13, 7:00 PM, Shrewsbury Public Library, 609 Main…
2020 TCCA Graduate Student Fellowship
The Thoreau Society is pleased to announce its second annual Thoreau Country Conservation Alliance (TCCA) graduate student fellowship. The 2020…
2020 Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship
The Thoreau Society is pleased to announce the fifth annual Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship, generously funded by the Harding family.…
Thoreau Society Bulletin 308 | Winter 2020
VIEW PDF This issue of the Thoreau Society Bulletin is made possible by a grant from Mass Humanities, which provided…
2020 Emerson Society Awards
Announcing the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Awards 2020 *Graduate Student Paper Award* Provides up to $750 of travel support to…
Thoreau Society Panels, ALA 2020
CFP: Thoreau in the Anthropocene & Thoreau and the Author Society in the 21st Century.
Nature: A Walking Play
The Trustees and TigerLion Arts present Nature, a walking play about Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau’s mutual love…
Richard Higgins, “Trees in Thoreau’s Concord and Today”
"Trees in Thoreau's Concord and Today," photographs by Richard Higgins, author of Thoreau and the Language of Trees, will be…
Shelburne Museum Features “the Thoreau of the Adirondacks”
From the Shelburne Museum: (Shelburne, Vermont) Harold Weston: Freedom in the Wilds will be on view at Shelburne Museum through…
An Evening with Robert Richardson at the Concord Museum
7/31/19, 7-8 pm: Renowned scholar Robert D. Richardson will reflect on Emerson, Thoreau, and Transcendentalism. Responses by Bay Emerson…
Engineering Thoreau: Nature, Technology, and the Connected Life
Today, people don't ordinarily associate Thoreau with engineering, but many of his contemporaries made this connection. In his eulogy of…
Auction Fun-Raiser
Starting on March 4 through March 29, 2019, The Thoreau Society and The Thoreau Farm Trust will be auctioning off…
Henry David Thoreau: Surveyor of the Soul
Documentary film by Huey December 6, 2018, 10 PM, Broadcast Maine Public Television January 3, 2019, 10PM, Broadcast Maine Public…
Slavery’s Determined Foe: The Legacy of John Brown
he Concord Museum will host “Slavery’s Determined Foe: The Legacy of John Brown” with two scholars, Dr. Amanda Gilvin and…
American Literature Association Conference
CFP: Thoreau Society American Literature Association Conference Boston, May 23-29, 2019 The Thoreau Society is pleased to sponsor two sessions…
Thoreau Society Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship, 2019
The Thoreau Society is pleased to announce the fourth annual Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship, generously funded by the Harding family.…
Call for Submissions: Teaching Thoreau
In 2018, the Thoreau Society Bulletin will begin publishing a series of essays on the subject of “Teaching Thoreau.” This new regular feature…
Thoreau Society Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship, 2018
Recipient will receive $1,000 for travel and Thoreau-related research in the Greater Boston area, plus free attendance (not required) at…
Radio Open Source: A 3-Part Celebration of Henry David Thoreau
Christopher Lydon, WBUR, 90.9: "A Wild & Disobedient Life," a multifaceted conversation about the multiple facets of Thoreau Part One,…