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!
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Got my packet in the mail yesterday. Yeah! Also, I'm reading Robert Sullivan's The Thoreau You Don't Know. I'm curious to find out what our group of scholars thinks about Sullivan and his scholarship and how Sullivan's thesis works in (or doesn't) with our workshop topics.
ReplyDeleteHi Earthpeace43! I, too, have been soaking up some background material--in particular, re-reading Richardson's Emerson: The Mind on Fire.
ReplyDeleteLook forward to reading Sullivan's work.
These sound fascinating! I will have to find them. Thanks!
ReplyDeletePicked up a new book this weekend at Square Books in Oxford, MS (home of University of Mississippi), called Woods Burner by John Pipkin. It's based on an incident in 1844 when Thoreau accidentally started a forest fire that destroyed 300 acres of the Concord woods.
ReplyDeleteSo many books and so little time!
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