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The Walden Woods Project’s Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods

is proud to co-sponsor this special author event

with the Concord Bookshop

 

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A Journey into the Transcendentalists' New England

by R. Todd Felton

Sunday, July 9, 2006 at 3:00 P.M.

 

The New England towns and villages that inspired the major figures of the Transcendentalism movement are presented by region in this travel guide that devotes a chapter to each town or village famous for its relationship to one or more of the Transcendentalists. Cambridge, where Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered his powerful speeches is highlighted, as is Walden, where Henry David Thoreau spent two years attuning himself to the rhythms of nature. Other chapters retrace the paths of major writers and poets of the period as well as the utopian communities of the time. This invaluable traveling companion offers street maps, historical illustrations, and narratives that create a vivid sense of New England in the 19th century.

 

R. Todd Felton is a photographer and writer who specializes in literary travel guides. He was the founding director of Wilbraham & Monson Academy's writing center as well as the English department chair and theater director. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

 

 

A Journey into the Transcendentalists' New England by R. Todd Felton; with a foreword by Jeffrey S. Cramer (Berkeley, CA: Roaring Forties Press, 2006)

 

 

Please note: this author event is being held at
The Concord Bookshop
65 Main Street, Concord, MA 01742

For more information, call: (978) 369-2405

978-369-2405