Celebrate Women's History Month! Join historian Richard Smith and Nikki Turpin , President of the Robbins House, as they lead a lecture / discussion highlighting and celebrating a selection of women reformers from Concord history, including Ellen Garrison, Abba May Alcott and Helen Thoreau. All are welcome, Co-sponsored by the Friends of Walden Pond and […]
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 […]
In honor of MLK Day, join Concord historian Richard Smith and Robbins House Programming Director Nikki Turpin for a conversation about Thoreau’s legacy of civil disobedience. Thoreau’s arrest for non-payment of taxes as a protest against slavery laid the ground for his essay Civil Disobedience, which Martin Luther King Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, Cesar Chavez, and other […]
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 […]
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+.
