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Boston is Thoreau Country: A Multimedia Series Celebrating Thoreau’s Legacy in the Hub

2017 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Two hundred years after Henry David Thoreau’s birth, a distinguished panel considered Thoreau’s lessons for today’s environmental policy, civil disobedience, and our relationships with the natural world. Laura Dassow Walls highlighted the event with her new biography, Henry David Thoreau: A Life.

Co-Presented by Old South Meeting House, The Thoreau Society, and the Boston Literary District.

WBUR Radio host Christopher Lydon moderated the panel that included Robbins house president Maria Madison (pictured); artist and filmmaker Paul Turano (Wander, Wonder, Wilderness); Laura Dassow Walls, author of the new biography, Henry David Thoreau: A Life; acclaimed memoirist Howard Axelrod (The Point of Vanishing); and the Rev. Fred Small, Minister for Climate Justice at Arlington Street Church.

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Date:
2017
Time:
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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Old South Meeting House
Boston, MA 02108 United States + Google Map
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