Past Events: 2004 to 2007
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November 15
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The
Walden Woods Project's Stewardship Lecture Series
Inheritors
of Thoreau's House:
Design/Build in New England
with Daniel Sagan
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October 25 |
The
Walden Woods Project's Stewardship Lecture Series
Saving an
American Icon:
The
American Chestnut Tree
with Susan Freinkel
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October 11 |
The
Walden Woods Project's Stewardship Lecture Series
I to Myself: Thoreau in his Journal
with Jeffrey S. Cramer
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October 4 |
Don Henley, the Walden Woods Project, Steinway &
Sons, Christie's,
and American Forests invite you to bid on this one of a kind
Walden Woods Steinway
Model D Art Case Concert Grand Piano
at a star-studded fundraiser for the Walden Woods
project
Walden in New York
Please note that this exhibit takes place in New York
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June 7
7:00 pm |
The Stewardship Lecture Series
The Good Life
of Helen K. Nearing
The Thoreau Institute
at Walden Woods
Margaret O. Killinger, author and Adjunct Assistant
Professor of History,
University of Maine
Honors College
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June 16
9:00 am to
11:00 am |
Discovering Walden Woods outing series
Who's Hiding
in Vernal Pools?
Walden Pond State
Reservation, Concord
Join a
team of vernal pool experts to see
what treasures lay hidden in the murky waters of Concords vernal
pools!
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May 10
7:00 pm |
The Stewardship Lecture Series
Global
Warming Comes to Thoreau's Concord
The Thoreau Institute
at Walden Woods
Richard Primack and
Abraham Miller-Rushing
Biology researchers
at Boston University
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May 12
10 am to noon |
Discovering Walden Woods outing series
Signs of Spring in Walden Woods
The Thoreau Institute
at Walden Woods
Richard Primack and
Abraham Miller-Rushing
Biology researchers
at Boston University
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April 5
7:00 pm |
The Stewardship Lecture Series
Thoreau in
Our Time:
A Biographer
Reports on Jane Goodall
The Thoreau Institute
at Walden Woods
Dale Peterson, author and biographer of acclaimed
biologist, conservationist, and animal activist Jane Goodall.
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November 30
7:00 pm |
The Walden
Woods Project's Stewardship Lecture Series
At Home in
Nature
The Thoreau Institute
at Walden Woods
Rebecca Kneale Gould,
professor at
Middlebury
College and author of
At Home in Nature: Modern Homesteading
and
Spiritual Practice in America.
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November 14
7:00pm |
Sponsored by the Mt. Holyoke College's Center for the
Environment
Home Ground:
Language for an American Landscape
Mt. Holyoke College,
South Hadley, MA
Barry Lopez,
award-winning essayist and short story writer, will discuss his
forthcoming book Home Ground: Language for an American
Landscape.
The event is
co-sponsored by the Walden Woods Project.
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October 23
7:00pm |
Part of the
2006 Concord Festival of Authors
and
The
Walden Woods Project's Stewardship Lecture Series
People of Concord
American Intellectuals and Their
Timeless Ideas
The Thoreau Institute
at Walden Woods
Robert C. Baron, President, Fulcrum Publishing
Hal Miller, former
Chairman of Houghton Mifflin.
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October 14
1:00pm and
3:30pm |
The Walden
Woods Project's Stewardship Lecture Series
Who is
Watching You?
Owls of New
England and Beyond
The Thoreau Institute
at Walden Woods
Mark and Marcia Wilson
are a charismatic team, photographing, teaching, and sharing
their passion for the natural world. Endowed with a fascination
for nature since childhood as well as biology degreed, both are
naturalists with a keen focus on birds.
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Ongoing
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Hosted by the Cincinnati Museum Center
Thoreau's Walden: A Journey in Photographs
by Scot Miller
Cincinnati, Ohio
A special
exhibit, developed by the Harvard Museum
of Natural History in cooperation with
the Walden Woods Project and
Scot Miller |
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September 28
7:00pm |
The Walden Woods Project's Stewardship Lecture Series
The
Endangered Species Act: Itself in Danger?
The Thoreau Institute
at Walden Woods
Brock Evans,
is
a prolific writer and
speaker on conservation subjects, and has
four decades of
environmental advocacy service with the Sierra Club, National Audubon Society,
and the Endangered Species Coalition.
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July 9
3:00pm |
Co-sponsored by the Walden Woods Project's Thoreau Institute
and the Concord Bookshop
A Journey
into the Transcendentalists' New England
The Concord Bookshop
Concord, MA
Speaker -
R. Todd Felton
- photographer and writer, specializing in literary travel
guides
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June 29
7:00pm |
The Walden
Woods Project's Stewardship Lecture Series
Breaking Through the Clouds
at the Thoreau
Institute at Walden Woods
Speaker -
Richard F. Fleck - renowned author
and mountaineer, to discuss and read from his new book
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June 15
Morning |
Hosted by Nature and Environmental
Writers -
College and University Educators
(NEW-CUE)
Fourth
NEW-CUE Writer's Conference and Workshop
Boothbay Harbor,
Maine
Featured
speaker -
Jeffrey S. Cramer
Curator of Collections
at
The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods
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June 10
9-11am |
The
Walden Woods Project's Discovering Walden Woods
Who is Hiding
in Vernal Pools?
Concord, MA
Join a team of
experts to explore the hidden
treasures of the SuAsCo watershed - vernal pools!
*Event is part of the Sudbury, Assabet,
and Concord Wild and Scenic River
Stewardship Council's RiverFest 2006.
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February 23
7:00pm |
The Walden Woods Project's Stewardship Lecture Series
Extinct and Vanishing Birds of North
America:
Their Causes of Decline
at the Thoreau
Institute at Walden Woods
Speaker -
Dr. Noel F. R. Snyder -
field biologist
and author of "The Carolina Parakeet:
Glimpses of a
Vanished Bird"
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February 4
Morning |
The
Walden Woods Project's Discovering Walden Woods
Who is Walking in Walden Woods?
A Presentation and Snow Tracking Outing
at the Thoreau
Institute at Walden Woods
Presentation -
Bob Metcalfe,
regionally-renowned tracker, and
experienced trackers of
Walden Keeping Track.
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January 25,
2006
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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The Walden Woods
Project's Stewardship Lectures
Who is Watching You?
Owls of New England
and Beyond
Special Encore Performance!
Speakers - Mark and Marcia Wilson
are a
charismatic team, photographing, teaching, and sharing their
passion for the natural world. Endowed with a fascination for
nature since childhood as well as biology degreed, both are
naturalists with a keen focus on birds.
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December 4, 2005
3:00pm |
Hosted by the University of
Connecticut's
Connecticut
State Museum
of Natural History and
Connecticut Archaeology Center
Making
Sense of Walden
The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Speaker -
Dr. Robert A. Gross -
James L.
and Shirley A. Draper Professor of Early American History in
UConn's Department of History.
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November 17, 2005
7:00pm – 9:00pm |
The Walden Woods
Project's Stewardship Lectures
Who is Watching You?
Owls of New England
and Beyond
Speakers - Mark and Marcia Wilson
are a
charismatic team, photographing, teaching, and sharing their
passion for the natural world. Endowed with a fascination for
nature since childhood as well as biology degreed, both are
naturalists with a keen focus on birds.
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October 27, 2005
7:00pm – 9:00pm |
The Walden Woods
Project's Stewardship Lectures
Thoreau’s Living Philosophy
Speaker - Philip Cafaro,
a former ranger with the
National Park Service and
assistant professor of philosophy at Colorado State
University, specializing in environmental ethics
and ethical theory.
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August 18, 2005
7:00pm – 9:00pm |
The Walden Woods
Project's Stewardship Lectures
Defining the New Ecology of Business
Speaker -
Jacob Park,
a Vermont-based academic and socially responsible investment
analyst who specializes in the teaching and the research of
environmental management, corporate social responsibility, and
community-based entrepreneurship
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June 23, 2005
7:00pm – 9:00pm |
The Walden Woods
Project's Stewardship Lectures
Looking for Mr. Gilbert
Speaker -
John Hanson
Mitchell,
author
of three books that explore the environmental history of Thoreau
country, and editor of
Sanctuary,
the journal of Mass Audubon.
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June 12, 2005
12:00pm - 4:00pm |
The Walden Woods
Project's Discovering Walden Woods
Riverfest
The SuAsCo: Thoreau’s Watershed, Our Watershed
A bi-lingual presentation, multicultural celebration, and interpretive walk
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June 7, 2005
6:00pm |
**Sponsored by the Harvard
Museum of Natural History**
Spreading the Gospel
of Henry Thoreau
Exhibition opening
lecture by Harvard University professor
Lawrence Buell.
Introductory
presentation by photographer Scot Miller.
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May 6, 2005
7:00pm |
**Presented by the Walden
Woods Project and
Porter Square Books**
John
Daniel, author of
Rogue River Journal:
A Winter
Alone
John Daniel is the author of two
poetry collections, Common Ground and All Things
Touched by Wind. His The Trail Home, a collection of
essays on nature, imagination, and the American West, was
published in 1992 by Pantheon Books and won the 1993 Oregon Book
Award for Literary Nonfiction. His work has appeared in journals
such as Audubon, Sierra, The North American
Review, and Bloomsbury Review.
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April 30, 2005
10:00am-4:00pm |
**Sponsored by the
GentleMUSES**
The Art and Science
of Therapeutic Harp Music:
Its History,
Technology, Influence, and Potential
from Ancient to Current
Times
Sarajane
Williams, M.A., Licensed Psychologist,
professional harpist
Kenneth
Turkington, musician, woodworker, conservationist
Dr.
Michael Sperber, psychiatric consultant, former
professor at Harvard Medical School, author of Henry David
Thoreau: Cycles and Psyche.
"The human soul is a
silent harp in God's quire, whose strings need only to be swept
by the divine breath to chime in with the harmonies of creation"
-Henry David Thoreau
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April 15, 2005
7:00pm-9:00pm |
The Walden Woods
Project's Stewardship Lectures
What Comes After
Globalization:
Imagining a More Local World
Speaker -
Bill McKibben,
writer, environmentalist, and scholar in
residence at Middlebury College; author of
The End of
Nature; Enough; Hundred Dollar Holiday; Maybe One; Hope, Human
and Wild; and many others.
A hopeful meditation
on how people might re-inhabit their landscape (based on the
author's new book Wandering Home: A
Long Walk Across America's Most
Hopeful Landscape).
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February 12, 2005
9:00am – 12:00pm |
"Discovering Walden Woods"
Who’s Walking in Walden Woods:
A Wildlife Tracking Outing
Lecture by
Bob
Metcalfe from New England Discovery, followed by a guided
tracking walk at Landfill and Brister’s Hill.
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November 18, 2004
7:00pm |
Woburn Toxic Waste Crisis:
A History of Grassroots Activism & Governmental Response
A
panel discussion featuring:
Anne Anderson, Kathi Anderson, Suzanne Condon, and Bruce Young
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October 23, 2004
3:00pm |
Janet Tashjian,
Author of:
The Gospel according to Larry
Part of the Concord Festival of
Authors
October 22 to November 6, 2004 |
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October 3, 2004 |
Thaddeus Holownia,
Discusses his
photographic exploration of Walden Pond
Part of the Concord Festival of
Authors
October 22 to November 6, 2004 |
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September 18, 2004 |
An Open House for
Lincoln residents
at the Walden
Woods Project
44 Baker Farm, Lincoln, MA
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July 15
through
September 13,
2004
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Walden
Comes Home:
The
Sesquicentennial of an American Classic
An
exhibit featuring the final manuscript draft of Thoreau’s Walden,
or Life in the Woods
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September 14, 2004 |
Barriers to Sustainable
Industrial Development
Dr. Allen Hershkowitz, Senior Scientist,
National Resources Defense Council
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August 21, 2004 |
WALDEN POND, 1854
Experience living history with Henry David Thoreau as portrayed
by Historian
Richard Smith
Free and open to the
public |
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August 19, 2004 |
Stewarding the Spirit of Walden
Jeffrey Cramer, Editor: Walden, A
Fully Annotated Edition
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August 11, 2004 |
Publication release
of
WALDEN: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition
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August 6, 2004 |
Sun to Moon
Gallery
presents
Book Signing and
Artist¹s Reception
to celebrate the release of:
Walden:
150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic
at the Sun to Moon Gallery
3001 Keller Springs Road
Carrollton, Texas 75006
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July 10, 2004 |
Thoreau's Legacy:
Crossing the
Conservation/Preservation Divide
Masonic Temple (Concord), Downstairs
Kent Curtis, David Foster, Michael Kellet, Jym St. Pierre, Jeff
Cramer, Brian Donahue, Chair
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June 12, 2004 |
Discovering Walden Woods
Thoreau's Fairhaven Bay
en espanol!
A SuAsCo Riverfest Event
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May 27, 2004 |
In
cooperation with the Concord Museum and Thoreau Society,
The Walden Woods
Project presents the
Thoreau Community Lecture Series:
"Walden in Context"
The Walden Woods Project's Curator of Collections,
Jeffrey Cramer, and
Director of Education, Kent Curtis speak at the
Concord Museum.
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May 13, 2004 |
Jeffrey Hollender, President and CEO, Seventh Generation
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May 15, 2004 |
Discovering Walden Woods
David Sibley,
Bird Watching in the 21st Century
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April 29, 2004 |
In
cooperation with the Concord Museum and Thoreau Society,
The Walden Woods
Project presents the
Thoreau Community Lecture Series:
"Spreading the Gospel of Walden"
Lawrence Buell, Professor of English at Harvard and author of the
recently-published Emerson biography spoke at the
Concord Museum.
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April 13, 2004 |
The Walden Woods
Project's Natural Subject Lectures
Susan Pollack
Author: “The Wives of Gloucester”
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April 6, 2004 |
The Walden Woods
Project's Natural Subject Lectures
Tom Conuel
Author: "Quabbin: the Accidental Wilderness"
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March 30,
2004 |
The Walden Woods
Project's Natural Subject
Jane Brox,
Author: "Here and Nowhere Else,
Five Thousand Days like This
One"
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March 25, 2004 |
In
cooperation with the Concord Museum and Thoreau Society,
The Walden Woods
Project presents the
Thoreau Community Lecture Series: "The Genesis of Walden"
Robert D. Sattelmeyer, Professor of English at Georgia State
University
and co-editor of Journal volumes 1-6 in the Princeton University Press
edition of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau will speak at the
Concord
Museum.
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March 23,
2004 |
The Walden Woods
Project's Natural Subject Lectures
John Mitchell
Editor, Sanctuary Magazine
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March 16, 2004 |
Walden Woods Project gala fund
raiser with a performance by
the incomparable
Bette Midler
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March 4, 2004 |
The Walden Woods
Project's Stewardship Lectures
Donald Worster |
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February 5, 2004 |
The Walden Woods
Project's Stewardship Lectures
Bob Durand, James Levitt, Sharon McGregor |
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January 31, 2004 |
Discovering Walden Woods
Wildlife and Tracking in Walden Woods |
