The Thoreau Society's 75th Annual Gathering:Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Henry D. Thoreau as Proto-ecologist, Reformer, and Visionary |
Wednesday, July 6, 2016 |
FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC** Masonic Temple 7-9 pm “Pond Scum: Henry David Thoreau’s Moral Myopia,” The New Yorker, October 19, 2015 Issue. The following is a program in response to the October New Yorker piece by Katherine Schulz. We hope for lively, respectful audience participation. Ms Schulz had prior engagements and respectfully declined our invitation to participate. Main Floor
"Is Thoreau Really ‘Pond Scum’,” Joseph L. “Joel” Andrews and Michael Lorence
"Skimming the Surface, A Katherine Schultz Inspired Play" Tammy Rose |
Thursday, July 7, 2016 |
6:30 - 9 am Walk Walden Woods, Peter Alden, Concord naturalist & author Masonic Temple 8 am Registration Opens Masonic Temple 9-10 Main Level “Reading Thoreau’s Journal," Barry Andrews** Lower Level FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC** "How Walden Works: The Hydrology of the Pond," John M. Nevison Masonic Temple 10:15-11:45 Main Level
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Noon-1 Lunch Masonic Temple 1-1:30 Main Level "The Life and Legacy of Richard Leo: A Modern Day Thoreauvian," Andrew Celentano Lower Level "Fruitlands and BrookFarm from the Ridiculous to the Sublime," Ted David Concord Free Public Library 1:30-3
Masonic Temple 1:45-3:15 Main Level
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Masonic Temple 3:30-5 Main Level
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6-7:30 Dinner on your own 7:30-9 Emerson Society
9-10 Emerson Society Wine and Cheese Reception |
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Friday, July 8, 2016 |
6:30 - 9 am Walk Eastabrook Woods, Peter Alden, Concord naturalist & author Meet at Keyes Rd town parking lot behind the banks. Masonic Temple 9-10 Main Level Thoreau's God, Richard Higgins Lower Level "Thoreau and Manifest Destiny," Richard Schneider** Masonic Temple 10:15-11:45 Main Level
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Noon-1 pm Lunch Masonic Temple 1-1:30 Main Level “Book Discussion,” Edward Fiske Mooney <CANCELLED> Lower Level "Thoreau’s Visionary (Proto-) Ecological Economics: Preserving the Extraordinary in the Ordinary," Sheila Post* Concord Free Public Library 1:30-3 "Curator's Gallery Tour of "From Thoreau's Seasons to Men of Concord: N. C. Wyeth Inspired," CFPL Art Gallery," Leslie Perrin Wilson Masonic Temple 1:45-3:15 Main Level
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3:30-5 Concord Museum Talk and Tour "Report on Thoreau Pencil Remnants from the Thoreau Society’s and Museum’s Collections,” Henrik Otterberg 3:30-5 Masonic Temple Main Level
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First Parish**6-7:30 Dinner 7:30-8:30 Classical Piano Performance, Andrew Celentano |
Saturday, July 9, 2016 |
7-8:30 Memorial Walk at Walden Pond, Corinne Smith First Parish**9-10:45 Business Meeting 11-Noon Keynote Elizabeth Witherell Noon-1 Lunch Concord Walk 1-3 pm Visiting Thoreau's Viewpoints with Jayne Gordon This two hour circular walk will focus on 5 intriguing and often overlooked geographical viewpoints, each of which provide evidence for a group discussion on Thoreau's intellectual viewpoints or points of view. If we can come closer to understanding Thoreau by being in places that stimulated his thinking about his place in the natural and social worlds of Concord, the experience might just work for us as well! Each of the viewpoints will allow us to examine an issue or idea from a historical and contemporary perspective, and none are more than a half mile from the conference's Masonic Lodge home base. Masonic Temple 1-2 pm Main Level "Thoreau’s Habits and Insights as an Introvert," Corinne Smith Lower Level "Transcending Transcendentalism," Michael Lorence 2:15-3:15 Main Level "How Thoreau Would Have Lived Today: can we live a Thoreauvian life in the modern world?," Joanna Greenfield Lower Level "Seeking the Ordinary in the Extraordinary: Walden in Our Time," Diana Lorence 3:30-4:30 Main Level “Walter Harding and Edwin Way Teale as Integral Components," Tom Potter and Allen Harding Lower Level “Walden Pond People,” Natasha Shabat 5:30 Reception for the Keynote Speaker 6-7:30 75th Anniversary Dinner Banquet 7:30-9 Book signing 9-10:30 Bring your singing voices and instruments for our song circle, led by Jeff Hinich and Corinne Smith |
Sunday, July 10, 2016 |
6:30-9 Walk Henry's Grave & Great Blue Heron Colony plus Great Meadows, Peter Alden, Concord naturalist & author. Meet at Keyes Rd town parking lot behind the banks. 7:30-10am Canoe/Kayak: 7:30-10am, with Deborah Medenbach.* Thoreau Farm 10-Noon Inspirational Morning Saunter at Thoreau Farm Birthplace, Thoreau Farm, Corinne Smith First Parish 10:00am Church service with AG Presenter, Reverend Barry Andrews. His sermon is on “The Whole Tenor of Our Lives,” from Thoreau’s journal. There will be a flutist, harpist, and a singing group. All are invited to the service and coffee hour afterwards.* Masonic Temple 9:30-10:30 Main Level "Thoreau and Schizoid Personality Disorder: His Life-Long Struggle between Shunning and Craving Meaningful Social Connection/Relationship," Joseph Cusumano Lower Level “Thoreau, the Pope, and the Indian: A Shared Vision,” Connie Baxter Marlow Masonic Temple 10:45-Noon Main Level Photographic Presentation: "Transcendental Vision: Photographing Concord as a Transcendentalist in the 21st Century," Lisa McCarty Lower Level Video: "Life and Legacy of Henry David Thoreau-A Live Dramatic Reading Performance," James Mathew Thoreau Farm Picnic Noon-2 Thoreau Farm 2:30-5 School of Philosophy: Louisa May Alcott and Thoreau Society Sponsored Panel |
Sunday Evening Special EventFREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC*7:30-9 pm at the Masonic Temple "Thoreau’s Vision: New National Parks “For Inspiration and Our Own True Recreation” In his classic work, The Maine Woods, Henry David Thoreau called for Americans to create “national preserves” to safeguard our country’s special places. He was the first person to articulate in writing the idea of creating national parks in the eastern United States. Less than a decade later, Yellowstone became the world’s first national park. Since then, we have assembled a system of national parks that reflects Thoreau’s vision of wilderness preservation, his appeal for balance between humans and the natural world, and his belief in the power of nature to renew human health and spirit. Our parks also embody cultural concerns of great importance to Thoreau, such as the horrors of war, the struggle for social justice, and the value of art, science and literature to human progress. As we celebrate the 2016 centennial of the National Park Service, a growing coalition of grassroots groups across America is seeking to create new national parks to protect natural landscapes and historic sites threatened by the kind of shortsighted industrial exploitation decried by Thoreau. This illustrated presentation will describe the emerging new national parks movement that draws inspiration from Thoreau’s vision. Michael Kellett, executive director of the nonprofit RESTORE: The North Woods, has more than 30 years of experience advocating for national parks, wilderness, and endangered wildlife. During that time, he has been active in efforts to safeguard the Thoreau Country, including development of the first proposal for a 3.2 million-acre Maine Woods National Park & Preserve, and initiatives to protect Walden Woods, the Thoreau birthplace, Estabrook Woods, Mount Wachusett, and the White Mountains. He has visited 250 National Park System units across America. Jym St. Pierre, Maine director of RESTORE: The North Woods, has worked for four decades to preserve wild nature. Since 1995, he has been at the forefront of efforts to protect Thoreau’s Maine Woods from destructive resource extraction and misplaced development. This includes leadership in campaigning for a Maine Woods National Park & Preserve and battling misplaced development around Moosehead Lake and other places along Thoreau’s travels in Maine. He has visited dozens of National Parks across four continents. |
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