Register for the 2023 Annual Gathering.
The Thoreau Society has been celebrating its Annual Gathering since its founding in 1941. Thoreau Society members and enthusiasts from around the world gather in Concord each year around the time of Thoreau’s birthday, July 12. Our Keynote speakers have featured a diverse group of individuals, all inspired by Thoreau in some way, such as Joyce Carol Oates, Arun Gandhi, and Edward O. Wilson. Milestones marked by Annual Gatherings include the discovery of the Walden cabin by Roland Robbins in 1944, the first open house of the Thoreau Institute in 1998, and the celebration of the 200th Anniversary of Thoreau’s birth in 2017.
July 2022
Jul 10 2022
The Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence in Nature Writing Honoring Dr. Jane Goodall
Concord-Carlisle High School
Jul 10 2022
The Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence in Nature Writing Honoring Dr. Jane Goodall
Concord-Carlisle High School
Jul 09 2022
Observing the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of Brister Freeman’s Death
Robbins House
Jul 09 2022
Dana S. Brigham Memorial Keynote Address
First Parish Concord
Jul 08 2022
An Afternoon and Evening of Film, Photography, and Music
Umbrella Arts Center
Jul 08 2022
Jesse Paris Smith in Concert with Alana Amram
Umbrella Arts Center
Jul 08 2022
Jesse Paris Smith in concert at the Emerson Umbrella
Umbrella Arts Center
Jul 06 - 10 2022
Annual Gathering 2022: The Global Thoreau
Masonic Lodge
July 2019
Jul 10 - 14 2019
2019: Engineering Thoreau: Nature, Technology, and the Connected Life
July 2018
Jul 12 - 15 2018
2018 Annual Gathering: Thoreau’s Ecological and Cultural Vision for a Tolerable Future
July 2017
Jul 11 - 16 2017
2017: Thoreau Bicentennial
July 2016
Jul 07 - 10 2016
2016: 75th Annual Gathering, Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary
July 2015
Jul 09 - 12 2015
2015: Thoreau’s Sense of Place
July 2014
Jul 10 - 13 2014
2014: Thoreau’s Creative Genius: Connecting the Arts, Sciences, and Higher Law.
July 2013
Jul 10 - 14 2013
2013: Henry D. Thoreau: Mystic, Transcendentalist, and Natural Philosopher to Boot
July 2012
Jul 12 - 15 2012
2012: Celebrating 150 Years of Henry David Thoreau’s Life, Works, and Legacy
July 2011
Jul 07 - 10 2011
2011: Henry David Thoreau’s Environmental Ethos: Then & Now
July 2010
Jul 08 - 11 2010
2010: Henry David Thoreau & New England Transcendentalism: Then & Now
July 2009
Jul 09 - 12 2009
2009 Social Awareness: Thoreau and the Reform Movement
July 2008
Jul 10 - 13 2008
2008: The Individual and the State: The Politics of Thoreau in Our Time
July 2007
Jul 02 - 15 2007
2007: Simplify, Simplify: Thoreau’s Timeless Message
July 2006
Jul 06 - 09 2006
2006: Mountains, Seashores, Moonlight: Thoreau’s Exploration of Wildness
July 2005
Jul 07 - 10 2005
2005: Thoreau: Nature, Science, and Higher Laws
July 2004
Jul 08 - 11 2004
2004: Walden: Of Its Time, For our Time A Sesquicentennial Celebration
July 2003
Jul 10 - 14 2003
2003 Annual Gathering
July 2002
Jul 11 - 14 2002
2002: The Spiritual and Political Mind of Thoreau
July 2001
Jul 12 - 15 2001
2001: 60th Anniversary
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