Speakers Bureau offers community programs
The Thoreau Society’s newly organized Speakers Bureau offers free educational programs to public libraries, community centers, senior centers, and other groups and organizations in Massachusetts about the life, works, and legacies of Henry David Thoreau.
This series is supported in part by a Mass Humanities Staffing Recovery Grant (2023-2025) that provides for our Membership and Program Coordinator. Funding from Mass Humanities has been provided through the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
So far, programs have been presented or scheduled in Chelmsford, Fitchburg, Groton, Lawrence, Leominster, Littleton, Reading, Stow, and Worcester.
Thoreau 101/ Thoreau-ly Misunderstood” with Rich Piccarreto
Richard Piccarreto is a certified tour guide in Concord, Massachusetts, a Cultural Site Interpreter for the Trustees of Reservations at the Old Manse, and Membership & Program Coordinator for the Thoreau Society.
“Thoreau: Civil Rights & Civil Disobedience” with Richard Smith
Richard Smith has lectured on and written about antebellum United States history and 19th-century American literature since 1995. He has worked in Concord as a public historian and Living History Interpreter for 25 years and has portrayed Henry Thoreau at Walden Pond, around the country, and in Canada. He has written eight books for Applewood books and is a regular contributor to Discover Concord magazine.