200 years after Henry David Thoreau’s birth in Concord, Massachusetts, a distinguished panel will consider Thoreau’s lessons for today’s world. Explore how Thoreau’s ideas have informed 21st-century civil disobedience and contemporary conversations about humans’ relationships with the natural world.
Panelists will include 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), MARIA MADISON, president of
The Robbins House: Concord’s African American History historic site, and the Rev.
FRED SMALL, Minister for Climate Justice at Arlington Street Church.
This event is part of the series “Boston is Thoreau Country: A Multimedia Series Celebrating Thoreau’s Legacy in the Hub,” Co-Presented by Old South Meeting House, The Thoreau Society, and the Boston Literary District and co-sponsored by The Walden Woods Project.
CHRISTOPHER LYDON (WBUR Radio host, “Open Source with Christopher Lydon”) will moderate the event.
This program is made possible with funding from the Lowell Institute.
Free and open to the public, registration is requested
here.
