Events

Inspired by the life, letters, and diaries of Henry David Thoreau, Followed by the Lark shows how strikingly similar the concerns of the early nineteenth century are to our own, and reminds us to listen for news of change: the song of spring’s first bluebird, reports from those who have heard it, and all the sounds…

Radically simple experimental tools to help anyone tap into a high-energy brain state to fire up innovative potential and shape their lives with intention—by the founder of a Harvard biomedical engineering innovation lab. In an age of convenience and information overload, it’s easy to go through the motions, pressured, distracted, and seeking instant gratification rather than harnessing our potential for meaningful and impactful…

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…

The Thoreau Society received a Mass Humanities Staffing Recovery Grant (2023-25) in support of our Membership and Program Coordinator. Funding from Mass Humanities has been provided through the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

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…

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…

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…

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…