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Location: Framingham Public Library, Costin Room Date: September 29, 7:00 P.M. |
What is it to live deliberately, to act with Thoreauvian resolve and purpose? Why should we, living in a world quite different form the world in which Henry David Thoreau found himself more than 150 years ago, be at all
interested in the words he wrote? How can any of the remedies he offered in his somewhat provincial world be useful in the global environment in which we now live? Because Thoreau forces us to ask the questions we do not necessarily want to hear. Thoreau's words are and will remain relevant and contemporary as long as we read but fail to comprehend, study but fail to learn, and talk but fail to act.
Jeffrey S. Cramer is the editor of Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition, I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, and The Maine Woods: A Fully Annotated Edition, all published by Yale, and the forthcoming The Quotable Thoreau (Princeton University Press, 2011) and The Portable Thoreau (Viking Penguin, 2011). Cramer has appeared on public radio's "On Point with Tom Ashbrook" and on C-SPAN's Book-TV. His essays and other writings have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Literary Review, and The Christian Science Monitor, among others. He is the Curator of Collections at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods.
Part of a free 10-session lifelong learning series presented by
Framingham Public Library and Framingham State University.
Refreshments served.
