Word: concorde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Museum of Comparative Zoology is raising $500,000 for a 730-acre wildlife research center in Concord...
Harvard bought 700 acres of the Estabrook Woods in Concord from a group of private owners, and an 30-acre tract from the estate of the late Edward M. Pickman '08, located in nearby Bedford. This property, added to the neighboring 2000-acre National Fish and Wildlife Refuge of the Concord River, will serve as a nature lab for studying geology, the effect of plant-eating fauna on vegetation, and methods to control animal population...
...DAYS OF HENRY THOREAU, by Walter Harding. With this able biography, Thoreau Expert Harding seeks to show that the voice of Concord's consecrated crank, silenced a century ago, speaks more loudly than ever...
Fishing. Thoreau was the completely unmalleable man-and boy. When his mother asked her son how she should explain his refusal to go to a neighborhood party, the boy replied: "Tell them I don't want to come." On Sunday, when Concord went to church, Thoreau went fishing. "Have you ever yet in preaching," he once asked a clergyman, "been so fortunate as to say anything...
...time and in a nation that made its own energy an article of faith, Thoreau stayed contentedly in Concord, doing as little as he could. "It is not necessary that a man should earn his living by the sweat of his brow," he said, "unless he sweats easier than I do." On the shores of Walden Pond, an easy walk from the Thoreau family home, he built the now world-famous cabin and lived there for two years, two months and two days. What did it prove? Nothing. But that cabin, long since gone, still stands in the hearts...