Civil Disobedience And The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail
January 19 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
- Enjoy scenes from the 1969 play The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by playwrights R. E. Lee and J. Lawrence. Join Robbins House President Nikki Turpin and local Concord Historian Richard Smith for a presentation and conversation on Henry David Thoreau’s Essay “Resistance to Civil Government,”Black History in Massachusetts, and Civil Rights. Q and A to follow, Jan. 19, 2026, noon- 2 p.m. at Walden Pond State Reservation. Learn more.