Calendar of Events
Last updated February 10, 2015
2015
June 23-27 – Moscow Idaho. Biennial Meeting of ASLE, the Association for the Study of Literature in the Environment. Talk on Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth Century Science.
May 17 – Kent, Connecticut (Raindate of May 24). Eric Sloane Museum. Public lecture and stone wall tour. Details in preparation.
May 16 – Guilford, CT, all afternoon on Saturday. Henry Whitfield State Museum (248 Old Whitfield St, Phone 203-453-2457, http://www.cultureandtourism.org/cct/cwp/view.asp?a=2127&q=302248).
- 1:30 PM: Public Lecture in Guilford Free Library on the local geology and the Whitfield House.
- 3:00 PM: Exploring the Stone Walls of the Whitfield House,
- 3:45 PM: Stone Wall Secrets: A Hands-on activity for children at the Whitfield House.
April 25 – Glouster, RI, all day. Rhode Island Statewide Historic Preservation Conference. Keynote speech: From Sticks to Stones and Back Again: The Underground Story of New England’s Stone Walls.
April 23 – Killingworth, CT, at 7:30 PM. Killingworth Public Library. Public lecture on New England’s Stony Sense of Place. The meeting will take place in the FireHouse
April 12 – Concord MA, 1-3 PM. Walden Pond State Reservation and the Thoreau Society. Talk on the Geology, hydrology, and meteorology of Walden Pond.
March 23 – Omni Mount Washington Hotel, Bretton Woods, NH, Reagan Room at 1:30 PM. Geological Society of America Northeastern Section Annual Meeting. Talk on Thoreau’s Walden and the Glacial Theory in Antebellum America.
March 1 – Sunday morning at 10:30, Madison, CT. Shoreline Unitarian Univeralist Society. Reflection on the Renewal of the Seasons.
2014
July 10 – Thursday afternoon, Concord, MA. Thoreau Society Annual Gathering. Lecture to registrants on Walden’s Shore.
June 15 – Tuesday afternoon at 4:00 PM. Block Island, RI. Block Island Garden Club / Conservtion. Public lecture on Stone walls.
June 13 – Friday evening, Storrs, CT. New England Conference of the North American Lake Management Society. Banquet lecture on Walden Pond for registrants.
June 5 – Thursday morning, Concord/Lincoln MA. The Thoreau Institute Sewardship Lecture Series (re-scheduled from March 13, a winter cancellation). Public lecture/reading on Walden’s Shore.
May 27 – Tuesday morning, New London, CT. The Williams School. PRIVATE guided stone wall tour of Connecticut College Arboretum, For Williams School only.
May 21 – Wednesday evening, Wallingford, CT. Wallingford Historical Society. Lecture on Iconic Landforms of Connecticut.
May 15 – Thursday evening, 6:00-7:30, Stonington, CT. La Gura Center. Lecture on Natural History of Stone Walls.
May 4 – Sunday, Upton, MA. Friends of Upton State Forest. Lecture, signing, and field trip on conserving stone walls.
April 26 – Saturday afternoon, 1:00-2:00, Harvard MA. Fruitlands Museum. Lecture and booksigning on Walden’s Shore.
April 13 – Sunday afternoon, 2-4, Middletown, RI. Middletown Historical Society. Paradise School, 2 Prospect Avenue, Middletown, RI. Public lecture on the Natural History of Stone Walls.
March 29 – Saturday, 9:00-3:00, Storrs CT. Connecticut Science Olympiad, sponsored by the UCONN College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Coordinating program on geological mapping.
March 23 – Sunday morning, 10:30-11:30, Madison, CT. Shoreline Unitarian Universaist Society. Sunday service on Descendentalism, a major point of Walden’s Shore.
March 20, – Thursday afternoon at 2:00, Bedford MA. Bedford Campus Center, Cafe East, 591 Springs Road. Middlesex Community College, Institute for Lifelong Education for Seniors. Keynote lecture on Walden’s Shore and Thoreau’s interest in historic stone walls.
March 13 – Rescheduled, Concord/Lincoln, MA. The Thoreau Institute of the Walden Woods Project. Launch of Walden’s Shore for the Concord vicinity.
February 12 – Wednesday afternoon, 1:00-3:00, Storrs, CT. Department of English, University of Connecticut. Seminar on Walden’s Shore.
February 1 – Saturday all day, 9:00-4:00, Cambridge, MA. Harvard Museum of Natural History. Table-talk exhibit on Henry David Thoreau’s Rock Collection during Earth Rocks! A Family Festival.
February 1 – Saturday afternoon, 2:00-3:30, Cambridge, MA. Harvard Museums of Science and Culture. Talk on Discovering Thoreau the Geologist.
2013
December 5, 2013, 4:00: University of Connecticut, Bookstore. Launch of Walden’s Shore.
Image: Mud cracks in dessicated soils of Glacial Lake Agassiz, a good analog for the automatic construction of stone walls.