Events

Join author Kristen Case for a reading and conversation drawn from her new book, Henry David Thoreau’s Kalendar (Milkweed Editions), an exploration of Thoreau’s final work. Focusing on the chapter “Gossamer Days,” Case reflects on Thoreau’s return to his seasonal charts in the final months of his life, when illness confined him to his house on Main…

Join us for a lively and luminous evening with celebrated poet, scholar, and memoirist Dr. Barbara Mossberg, as she brings to life her latest work, Clown Cantos: Everything Is Alive In Its Own Way, Singing. Inspired by Radiotopia’s Everything Is Alive, Dolly Parton, Dante, Dickinson, Einstein, Emerson—and always, Thoreau—Mossberg invites us to hear the hidden music of the…

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 to find focus, inspiration, connection, and support for developing your…

Dr. Julie Brown will share her ideas about Thoreau’s place on the autism spectrum.  She believes that his neurobiology influenced the content, themes, and style of his writing.  Walden functions not only as a type of autistic memoir, but as a “self-help” guide that could be of great value to others on the spectrum. Through…

Join Linda Coombs (Aquinnah Wampanoag) as she discusses her ground-breaking Young Adult book, Colonization and the Wampanoag Story, part of the Race to the Truth Series published by Penguin Random House that seeks to correct some of the long-standing myths about American history. The book has attracted many readers for its compelling story of a young…

Join author and educator William Homestead for an afternoon exploring the radical relevance of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the face of today’s intertwined educational, ecological, and moral crises. In dialogue with David Gordon, board member of the Thoreau Society, Homestead will reflect on his two latest works, which illuminate the enduring…

Please join us at this open forum to share your questions and input about the potential merger between Thoreau Farm and Thoreau Society. We encourage you to spend some time reviewing the existing documents that detail the 20 months of careful consideration already given to this question, the next few months of preparing for an…

Please join us at this open forum to share your questions and input about the potential merger between Thoreau Farm and Thoreau Society. We encourage you to spend some time reviewing the existing documents that detail the 20 months of careful consideration already given to this question, the next few months of preparing for an…