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Best accessible by car, it is a good place for walking, biking and fishing. Just recently, a new center was built there in Thoreau's honor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Livin' is Easy | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...that doesn't float your boat, take a trip to Walden Woods, where Henry David Thoreau, class of 1832, made his famous retreat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Livin' is Easy | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...THIS HOW THOREAU...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 17, 1999 | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...amplify, but entirely refashion oneself, creating a new identity for the contest alone. Tired of your dull laundry list of menial work-study jobs with inflated titles? Just turn yourself into John Adams, Class of 1755: "Built foundation of new government to alter national consciousness." Or Henry David Thoreau, Class of 1837: "Built and inhabited isolated cabin to alter national consciousness." Or Theodore J. Kaczynski '62: "Built and inhabited isolated cabin to alter national consciousness." You can discover a new element, build a nuclear reactor out of Tinker Toys, or save children from burning buildings on alternate Thursdays...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Billboards in Fantasyland | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

...fitting point of departure from Concord is Sleepy Hollow, a pleasant wooded ramble where 19th century Concordians used to take the air. Many of them linger there still. Sleepy Hollow is now a cemetery whose residents include the Alcotts, Emerson, Hawthorne, Lothrop and Thoreau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family: Little Concord's Literary Largesse | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

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