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...really a city upon the hill. But the religious fervor is not only limited to a renewed commitment to church-going. The religious ethos of Boston can be best felt outdoors. At Walden Pond, surrounded by basic natural elements--trees and water--you can imagine the epiphanies of Thoreau. Orchard House, home to Alcott family, Emerson House and The Fruitlands in Harvard, Mass., the religious communal farm of these New England thinkers and other transcendentalists, represent a quasi meeting of the minds, a convergence of the intellectual and the spiritual. The town of Salem and its gruesome but fascinating legacy...
...with the Mt. Kineo Charter and Guide Service in Maine. If fishing sounds less barbaric than gunning down Bambi's mother, the Cape Cod National Seashore might be a prime choice for hooking bluefish, striped bass, mackerel, or albacore. And one can head off with bait and tackle to Thoreau's old haunt, Walden Pond, to ponder the incompatability of civil disobedience and Ad Board restrictions on in-room Glocks...
After speaking in Cambridge, Clinton traveled to Walden Woods, Mass. to attend the grand opening of Thoreau Institute with the First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton. The institute, founded by singer Don Henley, is an educational facility promoting land preservation and dedicated to American author, philosopher and conservationist Henry David Thoreau, class...
...that doesn't float your boat, take a trip to Walden Woods, where Henry David Thoreau, class of 1832, made his famous retreat...
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...