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...Museum of Comparative Zoology is raising $500,000 for a 730-acre wildlife research center in Concord...
...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...
Henry David Thoreau has been buried in Concord, Mass. for a century. The stubborn, contradictory spirit laid to rest there did not loom large over his own times. He was considered an eccentric loafer, a consecrated crank with queer ideas. Since then Thoreau's ideas have had their seasons. In this excellent biography by a Thoreau scholar who has written and edited 18 earlier books on his chosen subject, Walter Harding argues that Thoreau's spirit is more pervasive now than ever before...
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...