Category Archives: General
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 »
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 »
Reading The Maine Woods
It’s an expansive time of year – leaves, light, day’s limits, everything unfurls – and, when I’m inside, I’m itchy to be elsewhere, as long as “elsewhere” is outside. So, in this season even my reading tends toward travel of more »
