Historian Richard Smith talks about Thoreau’s fall essay at the Walden Visitor Center from 12:00pm-1:00pm, followed by a foliage-inspired saunter with a Park Interpreter from 1:00pm2:00pm. Ages 6 years+.
Join Corinne Hosfeld Smith, author of Westward I Go Free: Tracing Thoreau's Last Journey, at the Walden Pond Visitor Center as she teases apart the complex relationship between Henry David Thoreau and the railroad.
Start off the New Year at Walden pond! Join Walden Pond State Reservation for a First day Hike at Walden Pond. Meet at the Walden Pond Visitor Center at 10:0am for the 1-mile guided hike on the accessible Woods Path to Henry David Thoreau's House Site near the shore of Walden Pond. Hot chocolate will […]
You are cordially invited to "live in the season" of Henry David Thoreau's 206th Birthday and saunter by Barrow Bookstore for an outdoor birthday bash to celebrate Concord's native son and famed writer/transcendentalist/abolitionist/and naturalist. WHEN: Saturday, July 15, 2023, 12pm - 7pm. WHERE: Outside Barrow Bookstore, 79 Main St. Concord, MA. FREE EVENT, ALL WELCOME […]
The Department of Conservation and Recreation invites you to join all 50 states on January 1, 2024 for a First Day Hike! Start off the New Year with a sprinkling of good company and a cup of hot chocolate after a hike around Walden woods! Meet at the Thoreau House Replica for the 1-1.5 mile […]
About the event: “A poem is one undivided, unimpeded expression fallen ripe into literature,” Thoreau wrote in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. “Much verse,” he said, “fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by […]
