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David Gessner at Thoreau Farm This Sunday

Posted on October 18, 2011 | Comments Off on David Gessner at Thoreau Farm This Sunday

David Gessner will be reading from his work this Sunday, October 23rd at 2:00 PM. Gessner is the award-winning author of eight books and countless essays about the wild world.  His uniquely rambunctious style has been redefining what it means to write about nature for the past twenty years. Gessner is the winner of a John Burroughs Award and has been selected for publication in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where he founded the award-winning journal, Ecotone.

You can read excerpts from Gessner’s work our Reading Page or link here:  READING

More information and registration information is at our Events Page or link here: EVENTS

David Gessner at Thoreau Farm
341 Virginia Road
Concord, MA

info@thoreaufarm.org or call 978-451-0300

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Posted in Environment, News and Events

Read Excerpts from David Gessner’s New Books

Posted on October 4, 2011 | Comments Off on Read Excerpts from David Gessner’s New Books

Ever think about what you are willing to sacrifice for “the good life?” Read excerpts – now available under the “Reading” page here at Thoreau Farm’s website – from David Gessner’s My Green Manifesto: Down the Charles River in Pursuit of a New Environmentalism and his NEW BOOK OUT THIS WEEK, The Tarball Chronicles.  In “Déjà vu: A Northern Interlude,” from The Tarball Chronicles,  Gessner ponders the larger question posited by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: How much are we willing to sacrifice for the “good life”? In this excerpt, he harkens back to Thoreau’s concept of sacrifice as “Economy” embodies it in Walden.  And from My Green Manifesto, an essay titled, “Henry’s River.” Go to the “Reading” tab above or click here:  Reading

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Women, War & Peace – an upcoming PBS documentary

Posted on September 29, 2011 | Comments Off on Women, War & Peace – an upcoming PBS documentary

What if you looked at war as though women mattered?  This question is at the heart of Women, War and Peace, an upcoming PBS miniseries exploring women’s strategic role in conflict and peacebuilding.  Watch a special preview tonight.  Narrated by Matt Damon, Geena Davis, Tilda Swinton, and Alfre Woodard.

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