As you begin to prepare for your trip to Concord, you may want to check out the Concord Chamber of Commerce website. On this page you will find airport shuttle and train information, local attractions, restaurant choices (Helen's is one of my favorites; you have to try the Raspberry Lime Rickey), and other information. Some participants have family members who are going to spend their time in Concord, so this website might be useful to them as they plan their day. I know my husband found that he needed a kayak after our first Concord trip!
Here is the link to the CofC website:
http://www.concordchamberofcommerce.org/concord_visitor-info.htm
See you soon in Concord!
Monday, June 29, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Reader update
You may have noticed that the second entry in our Reader is missing a few pages... We will be sending you, via Express Mail, the full article.
Please accept our apologies for the missing pages. Great are the mysteries of printing.
Please accept our apologies for the missing pages. Great are the mysteries of printing.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Hi there!!
Can't wait to meet you all. I am excited to be in the company of sharp minds who are not afraid to come out of the box. It's one thing to think outside of the box; it's another to step out of it completely!
I am a MA native, graduated from Northeastern, which is in Boston, worked in W. Concord at GenRad (General Radio-Eastman Kodak), drove through Concord quite a bit and am intimately familiar with Route 2 (the free east-west path from Boston to NY state).
For those of you who read this and are not familiar with the area, Concord is about 27 miles West of Boston. If you are flying in, you might want to hook up with others attendees and hire the car. Take Martha's advice!!
OK, until the conference!!
I am a MA native, graduated from Northeastern, which is in Boston, worked in W. Concord at GenRad (General Radio-Eastman Kodak), drove through Concord quite a bit and am intimately familiar with Route 2 (the free east-west path from Boston to NY state).
For those of you who read this and are not familiar with the area, Concord is about 27 miles West of Boston. If you are flying in, you might want to hook up with others attendees and hire the car. Take Martha's advice!!
OK, until the conference!!
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Concord Reader
Great news! The "Concord Reader" should be ready and shipped by week's end. It will be mailed priority mail so that there will be time to read the selections.
To "whet" your Walden Pond appetite, you may find this article quite interesting:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/10/24/0806446105.full.pdf+html
The study is a follow-up to an article in Smithsonian Magazine a year or so ago. Henry was, apparently, more than a mere diarist. Enjoy!
To "whet" your Walden Pond appetite, you may find this article quite interesting:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/10/24/0806446105.full.pdf+html
The study is a follow-up to an article in Smithsonian Magazine a year or so ago. Henry was, apparently, more than a mere diarist. Enjoy!
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Workshop Schedule Update
NEH LANDMARKS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE 2009:
“Concord, Massachusetts: Center of Transcendentalism and Social Action in the 19th Century
Schedule of Daily Activities:
Sunday/Registration and Opening Session
4:00-6:00PM Registration/Colonial Inn Thoreau Room
6:00-8:30 Welcome/Introductions/Workshop Overview
Thoreau Room, Colonial Inn
Dinner (provided)
Dr. Robert Gross, University of Connecticut, “Why Concord?”
Sunday Readings in Concord Reader: Robert Gross. “The Celestial Village” and “'That Terrible Thoreau': Concord and Its Hermit." See also “Commemorating Concord,” common-place, vol. 4, no. 1 (October 2003) http://www.common-place.org/vol-04/no-01/gross/
Monday/Focus: Concord: Center of Reform and Innovation
8:00-8:30AM Donuts and Coffee/Concord Museum
8:30-10:00 Dr. Robert Gross, "Transcendentalism and Reform"
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:45 Dr. Gross and David Wood, Director of the Concord Museum, “Using Material Culture in the Classroom: A Special Tour of the Concord Museum”
12:15-1:45PM Lunch at personal discretion
1:30 - 3:00PM Leslie Wilson, Director of Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library, “The Resources of the Concord Free Public Library: Social Action and Transcendentalism.” (Meet in Special Collections, CFPL.)
3:30 – 5:30 Visit Walden Pond and site of Thoreau’s cabin.
Evening Concord Public Library will be open until 9:00 PM.
Tuesday/Focus: Concord: Center of Social Action
8:00-8:30AM Donuts and Coffee/Masonic Hall
8:30-10:00 Dr. Sandra Petrulionis, “Idealism and Social Action: Concord’s Anti-Slave Movement”
Tuesday Readings in Concord Reader: Petrulionus, Sandra. To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau’s Concord. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006, Chapters 1 & 2.
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:30 Dr. Petrulionis, continuation of seminar
11:45-1:30PM Lunch (provided) with Dr. Petrulionis, Q/A session
2:00- 3:15 Guided tour of the Old Manse. Afterward free to explore North Bridge, Minuteman National Park, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, etc.
Evening Concord Public Library will be open until 9:00 PM.
Wednesday/Focus: Transcendental Utopias
8:00-8:30AM Donuts and Coffee/Concord School of Philosophy
8:30-10:00 Dr. Sterling F. Delano, “Transcendental Utopias: Brook Farm and Fruitlands”
Wednesday Readings in Concord Reader: Sterling Delano, Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. Prologue & Chapters 2 & 10.
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:30 Dr. Delano, continuation of seminar
11:45-5:00 PM Site visits led by Dr. Delano to Brook Farm and Fruitlands communities. Box lunch provided on bus.
Evening Concord Public Library will be open for participants’ research.
Thursday/Concord’s Transcendental Women
8:00-8:30AM Donuts and Coffee/ Masonic Hall
8:30AM-10:00 Lecture with Dr. Phyllis Cole, “Transcendental Women and Social Reform.” Thursday’s reading in Concord Reader: Phyllis Cole, “Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism,” Oxford: Oxford U P, 1998, Chapters 4 and 9.
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:30 Continuation of seminar.
12:00-1:30PM Box lunch provided. Q/A session w/ Dr. Cole.
2:00-3:00 Tour of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s home
Evening Concord Public Library will be open for participants’ research.
Friday/The Alcotts and Reform
8:00-8:30 AM Coffee and donuts/Concord School of Philosophy
8:30-9:15 Guided tour of the Orchard House.
9:30-11:00 Dr. John Matteson, “The Alcotts and Reform.”
Friday Readings in Concord Reader: John Matteson, Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father. NY: Norton, 2007, Chapters 3,5,6,7.
11:00 -11:15 Break
11:15 -12:30 PM Dr. Matteson, continuation of seminar. Q/A session.
3:30-6:30 Participant presentations. Colonial Inn/ Room TBA
Saturday/Conclusion & Departure
8:30-10:30 AM Continental Breakfast/Colonial Inn/Thoreau Room
Summary and Closing
10:30-11:00 Last minute details and farewell!
“Concord, Massachusetts: Center of Transcendentalism and Social Action in the 19th Century
Schedule of Daily Activities:
Sunday/Registration and Opening Session
4:00-6:00PM Registration/Colonial Inn Thoreau Room
6:00-8:30 Welcome/Introductions/Workshop Overview
Thoreau Room, Colonial Inn
Dinner (provided)
Dr. Robert Gross, University of Connecticut, “Why Concord?”
Sunday Readings in Concord Reader: Robert Gross. “The Celestial Village” and “'That Terrible Thoreau': Concord and Its Hermit." See also “Commemorating Concord,” common-place, vol. 4, no. 1 (October 2003) http://www.common-place.org/vol-04/no-01/gross/
Monday/Focus: Concord: Center of Reform and Innovation
8:00-8:30AM Donuts and Coffee/Concord Museum
8:30-10:00 Dr. Robert Gross, "Transcendentalism and Reform"
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:45 Dr. Gross and David Wood, Director of the Concord Museum, “Using Material Culture in the Classroom: A Special Tour of the Concord Museum”
12:15-1:45PM Lunch at personal discretion
1:30 - 3:00PM Leslie Wilson, Director of Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library, “The Resources of the Concord Free Public Library: Social Action and Transcendentalism.” (Meet in Special Collections, CFPL.)
3:30 – 5:30 Visit Walden Pond and site of Thoreau’s cabin.
Evening Concord Public Library will be open until 9:00 PM.
Tuesday/Focus: Concord: Center of Social Action
8:00-8:30AM Donuts and Coffee/Masonic Hall
8:30-10:00 Dr. Sandra Petrulionis, “Idealism and Social Action: Concord’s Anti-Slave Movement”
Tuesday Readings in Concord Reader: Petrulionus, Sandra. To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau’s Concord. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006, Chapters 1 & 2.
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:30 Dr. Petrulionis, continuation of seminar
11:45-1:30PM Lunch (provided) with Dr. Petrulionis, Q/A session
2:00- 3:15 Guided tour of the Old Manse. Afterward free to explore North Bridge, Minuteman National Park, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, etc.
Evening Concord Public Library will be open until 9:00 PM.
Wednesday/Focus: Transcendental Utopias
8:00-8:30AM Donuts and Coffee/Concord School of Philosophy
8:30-10:00 Dr. Sterling F. Delano, “Transcendental Utopias: Brook Farm and Fruitlands”
Wednesday Readings in Concord Reader: Sterling Delano, Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. Prologue & Chapters 2 & 10.
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:30 Dr. Delano, continuation of seminar
11:45-5:00 PM Site visits led by Dr. Delano to Brook Farm and Fruitlands communities. Box lunch provided on bus.
Evening Concord Public Library will be open for participants’ research.
Thursday/Concord’s Transcendental Women
8:00-8:30AM Donuts and Coffee/ Masonic Hall
8:30AM-10:00 Lecture with Dr. Phyllis Cole, “Transcendental Women and Social Reform.” Thursday’s reading in Concord Reader: Phyllis Cole, “Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism,” Oxford: Oxford U P, 1998, Chapters 4 and 9.
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:30 Continuation of seminar.
12:00-1:30PM Box lunch provided. Q/A session w/ Dr. Cole.
2:00-3:00 Tour of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s home
Evening Concord Public Library will be open for participants’ research.
Friday/The Alcotts and Reform
8:00-8:30 AM Coffee and donuts/Concord School of Philosophy
8:30-9:15 Guided tour of the Orchard House.
9:30-11:00 Dr. John Matteson, “The Alcotts and Reform.”
Friday Readings in Concord Reader: John Matteson, Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father. NY: Norton, 2007, Chapters 3,5,6,7.
11:00 -11:15 Break
11:15 -12:30 PM Dr. Matteson, continuation of seminar. Q/A session.
3:30-6:30 Participant presentations. Colonial Inn/ Room TBA
Saturday/Conclusion & Departure
8:30-10:30 AM Continental Breakfast/Colonial Inn/Thoreau Room
Summary and Closing
10:30-11:00 Last minute details and farewell!
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