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The Walden Woods Project preserves the land, literature and legacy of Henry David Thoreau to foster an ethic of environmental stewardship and social responsibility … read more
The Land
How we protect Thoreau’s Walden Woods
The Literature
All things by and about Henry David Thoreau
The Legacy
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Ken Burns Presents “Walden”, A Ewers Brothers Production
Join us for a virtual event with Nathaniel Popkin and Gail Straub as they discuss Popkin’s newest book, To Reach The Spring: From Complicity to Consciousness in the Age of Eco-Crisis. In the shadow of an escalating eco-crisis—a looming catastrophe that will dwarf the fallout from COVID-19—how can we explain our society’s failure to... Read more
This winter's Reading Circle will focus on Louisa May Alcott's " Transcendental Wild Oats, A Chapter from an Unwritten Romance," originally published in The Independent, December 1873. Join Executive Director of Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House Jan Turnquist, The WWP Education Coordinator Sarah Walker, The WWP Curator of Collections and Thoreau... Read more
