Author Archives: Sandy Stott

Commencing II – the Woods

  1971 at a small college to the west: I shift, redistributing my weight on the folding wooden chair. The sun catches in the black folds of my gown, and there the heat grows intense; it seems to swim up more »

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Beginnings – Thoreau at Commencement

A Commencement Address By Henry David Thoreau Assembled and slightly augmented by Corinne H. Smith Corinne H. Smith is a tour guide and program coordinator at the Thoreau Farm Birthplace, and is the author of ‘Westward I Go Free: Tracing more »

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Eyeing Crab Apples

By Corinne H. Smith In recent years, Dr. Richard B. Primack and his Boston University associates have used Henry Thoreau’s meticulous botanical notes to track global warming. Henry recorded the days when various flowers bloomed annually in Concord in the more »

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