Living Deliberately: Thinking Like Thoreau Today, November 13, 2011
Author Jeffrey S. CramerSunday, November 13, 2011, 2:00 p.m.
Community Room, Needham Free Public Library
1139 Highland Avenue, Needham, MA
Free and open to the public
Refreshments
Sponsored by the Friends of the Needham Public Library
As a new Harvard grad in 1837, Thoreau confronted a country with a troubled banking system, foreclosures, and widespread layoffs, all part of a deepening depression. New England was in the throes of transformation to an industrial economy.
Jeff Cramer is eminently qualified to relate observations by the Concord Transcendentalist to our time. He is Curator of Collections at The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods and editor of the award-winning Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition (2004), followed by I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (2007); and The Maine Woods (2009), all for Yale University Press. The Portable Thoreau (Viking Penguin) is due in March, 2012.
The Quotable Thoreau (2011, Princeton University Press) will be available for purchase and signing.
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