BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.2//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69@walden.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210925T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210925T123000 DTSTAMP:20210818T174314Z URL:https://www.walden.org/events/determined-to-know-beans-a-historical-an d-biological-exploration-of-thoreaus-beanfield/ SUMMARY:Determined to Know Beans: A Historical and Biological Exploration o f Thoreau's Beanfield DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 25\, 2021 11:00am-12:30pm \n\nWhere: The Walden Pond State Reservation  \n\nREGISTER HERE. REGISTRATION IS LIMITED \n\nWPSR Parking fees: $8 MA resident\; $30 non-MA resident\n\nAbout the e vent: \n\nIn 1845 Henry David Thoreau moved to Walden Pond to begin his t wo-year experiment in simple living in a small\, one-room house that he bu ilt himself. Thoreau also planted and maintained a garden of "two acres an d a half of light and sandy soil" in which he grew beans. Thoreau left th e Pond in 1847 and died in 1862\; throughout the 19th and into the 20th Ce ntury\, the exact location of his beanfield was either forgotten by local historians or the site was misidentified.  It wasn't until the 1990s that historian Bradley Dean identified the exact location of the beanfield.   \n\nJoin The Walden Woods Project ( The Friends of Walden Pond) for an i nterpretive walk to the beanfield with historian Richard Smith and biologi st Dr. Amity Wilczek. The first half of the walk will cover Thoreau's expe riences at the field and the history of the beanfield both during and afte r Thoreau's time. The second half will cover the biological and botanical history of the beanfield\; how it looked when Thoreau was there and how it 's changed since then\, including the plants that Thoreau would and would not be familiar with\, including invasives. \n\nAbout the guides: \n\nRi chard Smith has lectured on and written about antebellum United States and 19th-Century American history and literature since 1995. He has worked as a public historian in Concord\, Massachusetts for 22 years\, specializing in Henry David Thoreau\, the Transcendentalists\, the Anti-Slavery moveme nt and the Civil War. As a Living History Interpreter\, he has portrayed H enry Thoreau at Walden Pond and around the country since 1999. In addition \, Richard has been a tour guide for the Concord Tour Company for ten year s. He has written six books\, including two about Henry Thoreau\, for Appl ewood Books.\n\n \;\n\nDr. Amity Wilczek is an evolutionary ecologist whose role as an educator and researcher has been shaped by attention to p lace\, history\, and student experience. Her teaching career started at Ha rvard and Brown before transitioning to Deep Springs College\, where over 10 years she served as Herbert Reich Chair of Natural Sciences\, Academic Dean\, and Vice President. Her work on plant responses to changing environ ments has appeared in Science\, PNAS\, Ecology\, American Naturalist\, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.  Amity currently lives in Concord\, Massachusetts and serves as trail steward of the Emerson-Thor eau Amble for the town. CATEGORIES:Lectures,Special Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR