Henry Thoreau in Our Time-Lecture

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1946-04-12

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Bennington College

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"Last July we celebrated the centennial of Henry David Thoreau's retirement to Walden Pond. Almost twice as many old ladies as usual made the pilgrimage to Concord, to see the shrine containing his furniture, and to Walden, where they had the privi-lege of adding a rock to the cairn where his hut once stood and opening a box lunch in the picnic ground that stands as his monument. The American Museum of Natural History staged a Walden Pond exhibit. The Saturday Evening Post ran an illustrated article. And to add the final mortuary touch, a professor of English published a slim volume called ''Walden Revisited". All in all, it was a typical American literary centennial. Henry Thoreau would probably not have enjoyed it. ....."

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Thoreau, Henry David, American Thought Lecture Series, Hyman, Stanley Edgar

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