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An Evening of Music and Stories with Jesse Paris Smith

The Umbrella Community Arts Center 40 Stow St., Concord, MA, United States

As part of 81st Annual Gathering of The Thoreau Society, The Umbrella is thrilled to co-present an evening of music, stories, and readings connected with Thoreau and Concord by musician New York-based and activist Jesse Paris Smith, with singer-songwriter Alana Amram. Smith is co-founder of the global climate action nonprofit Pathway to Paris, which brings together musicians, artists, activists, academics, mayors, and innovators to […]

$25

Into the Woods—and Weeds and Swamp and Infinity of You: A Writing Workshop with Dr. Barbara Mossberg

Thoreau Farm 341 Virginia Road, Concord, MA, United States

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately . . . and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden How does going to “the woods” lead to a meaningful life—the sense that we have truly lived? We have a remarkable opportunity to […]

$200

Thinking Like the Sun: Stellar Knowledge of the Woods, Weeds, Swamp, and Infinity of You

Thoreau Farm 341 Virginia Road, Concord, MA, United States

An Author Talk from Dr. Barbara Mossberg Mossberg returns to the Thoreau Farmhouse to explore “The World as Walden,” Thoreau’s meaning to writers today, and his role in her recent eco-memoir, Here for the Present. Reading from her work as an example of inspiration from Thoreau’s writing in “thinking like the sun,” Mossberg shares Thoreau’s […]

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