Outsider: My Boyhood with Thoreau — A Book Talk with Lawrence Millman

Outsider: My Boyhood with Thoreau is a memoir told in vignettes by the mycologist and author Lawrence Millman. Early on, Millman found in Thoreau a kindred spirit, far outside of the mainstream social, sporting, and educational interests he was expected to be cultivating. And like Thoreau, he would rather be out-of-doors — where he could socialize with mushrooms, insects, or earthworms —than stuck in any indoor locale.

April 11, 2024
7pm
At Thoreau Farm

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Writer, ethnographer, mycologist Lawrence Millman has made over forty trips and expeditions to the Arctic and Subarctic. His twenty-seven books include such titles as Last Places, Northern Latitudes, A Kayak Full of Ghosts, Our Like Will Not Be There Again, Hiking to Siberia, Lost in the Arctic, At the End of the World, The Book of Origins, Fungipedia, The Last Speaker of Bear, Foraging with Jeeves, and the Coyote Arts title Goodbye, Ice. He has written for Smithsonian, National Geographic, Outside, Atlantic Monthly, and The Sunday Times (London). He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

Larry will be joined in conversation by Eric Miller — a kindred Thoreauvian who met Larry two years ago in Colorado but re-met here in Concord on one of Thoreau Farm’s Sauntering Society programs. Eric is a temporary Massachusetts resident, here for a one-year disaster medicine fellowship as a critical care nurse and paramedic. During his stay he is living in a tent near Concord and absorbing as much Thoreau as possible. As he describes his time here, “I arrived in Concord July 3, 2023. By noon the next morning I was kayaking on Walden Pond reading Walden. Little did I know it was the 178th anniversary of Thoreau’s arrival to Walden for his 2-year adventure.” 

 

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PRAISE FOR OUTSIDER:
“Henry David, I think, would have wanted you to carry this in your hip pocket, to be mulled over in small bites while walking.” — Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and editor of American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
 
“If you read Larry Millman (and the gods help you if you don’t!), then you already know he is an odd fellow. This sweet and sharp beauty of a bagatelle lets us in on how he got that way, with a good many grins and groans along the way. And it leaves us feeling lucky that Larry, like Henry, has followed his own nose, and no one else’s.” — Robert Michael Pyle, author of Children of the Night and The Thunder Tree
 
“This book is small in size, but huge in spirit. Read it, revel in it, then make your way outside and get some dirt on your clothes.” — Gregory McNamee, author of Gila: The Life and Death of an American River
 
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