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October 2023
05 October 2023

Wild By Design: A Conversation with Author Laura Martin

Click here to register on Zoom (Free) Today environmental restoration is a global pursuit. Governments, nonprofits, and other institutions spend billions of dollars each year to remove invasive species, build wetlands, and reintroduce species driven from their habitats. But restoration has not always been so intensively practiced. It began as the pastime of a few… ...

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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07 October 2023
08 October 2023
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Call for Community Readers for first-ever Thoreau’s Cape Cod Readathon

Barnstable, MA – The public is invited to sign-up to be a community reader for the first-in-the-nation readathon of Thoreau’s Cape Cod, hosted by Barnstable Land Trust in honor of its 40th Anniversary.  It is estimated that over 90 in-person readers will help narrate over 120 five-minute segments of the iconic book from 10 am… ...

10:00 am - 12:00 am
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08 October 2023
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Call for Community Readers for first-ever Thoreau’s Cape Cod Readathon

Barnstable, MA – The public is invited to sign-up to be a community reader for the first-in-the-nation readathon of Thoreau’s Cape Cod, hosted by Barnstable Land Trust in honor of its 40th Anniversary.  It is estimated that over 90 in-person readers will help narrate over 120 five-minute segments of the iconic book from 10 am… ...

12:00 am - 3:00 pm
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15 October 2023
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Foraging With Jeeves & Other Offbeat Mycological Excursions: A Book Launch with Lawrence Millman

Click here to register on Zoom and join us virtually (Free).   Click here to Register for the in-person event (Free). This book defies any known genre, just as fungi often tend to defy our attempts to identify them. Think science (the Salem witchcraft fungus) followed by satire (a fungal Faust) followed by an account… ...

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
341 Virginia Road, Concord MA 01742
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19 October 2023
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Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently – An Author Talk with Lawrence Buell

Click here to Register for the in-person event ($15). Click here to register on Zoom and join us virtually ($10). Henry David Thoreau was a leading figure in the American Transcendentalist movement, an intellectual with worldwide influence as an essayist, social thinker, naturalist-environmentalist, and sage. Two of his most famous works, Walden, and “Civil Disobedience,” are… ...

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
341 Virginia Road, Concord MA 01742
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27 October 2023
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I Have More Lives to Live: Thoreau as a Guide to Moral Heroism and Ultimate Resilience An Evening with Dr. Barbara Mossberg at Thoreau Farm

Click here to Register for the in-person event Dr. Barbara Mossberg recently celebrated her 75th birthday swimming Walden Pond as a tribute to the radiant power of Thoreau’s writing in her own life. Join her for an evening of reflection on Walden as a Transformational Guide to personal heroism and resilience, Thoreau’s inspiration, and on… ...

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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28 October 2023
29 October 2023
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Writing Your Story in the Woods

Click here to Register Limited to 12 people. Fee: $200/ person No story is like yours — and your telling it is powerful and necessary. Join this workshop to find your woods and tell your story. In this two-day workshop, national memoirist & distinguished teacher Dr. Barbara Mossberg invites you “to the woods” — a place… ...

9:00 am - 12:00 am
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28 October 2023
Terry Tempest Williams: Photo Credit: © Zoë Rodriguez

The Thoreau Prize Honoring Terry Tempest Williams

Event takes place at the Trinitarian Congregational Church, 54 Walden Street, Concord, MA. Get Ticket(s) for In-Person Event: $25 Register for Zoom: $15 The Thoreau Society does not exclude anyone because of the inability to pay. Please contact mike.frederick@thoreausociety.org to request reduced rates. Terry Tempest Williams is the author of numerous books, including the environmental… ...

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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29 October 2023
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Writing Your Story in the Woods

Click here to Register Limited to 12 people. Fee: $200/ person No story is like yours — and your telling it is powerful and necessary. Join this workshop to find your woods and tell your story. In this two-day workshop, national memoirist & distinguished teacher Dr. Barbara Mossberg invites you “to the woods” — a place… ...

12:00 am - 1:00 pm
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November 2023
06 November 2023
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“A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate”—Author Talk

Register on Zoom How did one man protect the future of birds? A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate is the story of how Connecticut’s George P. McLean helped establish lasting legal protections for birds, overseeing passage of the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act, landmark environmental protection legislation that… ...

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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