Of Interest
The Mary Sherwood Papers

Mary Sherwood (1906-2001) 

The papers of Mary Elizabeth Pasco Sherwood, environmentalist, America's first woman forester, founder of Walden Forever Wild, a Concord, Massachusetts, organization devoted to turning Walden Pond State Reservation into a national or state sanctuary in memory of Henry David Thoreau, restricting public access to protect Walden Pond and its surrounding area, and founder of The Thoreau Fellowship (Old Town, Maine).

 

 


 

 

The Mary Sherwood Papers: A Finding Aid (under construction)
 

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