The Write Connection at Thoreau Farm is a literary program in partnership with The Thoreau Society, featuring author talks and writing workshops that encourage critical thinking and perceptive writing about the world and ourselves.
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2024
November 19, 2024 – Thoreau’s God: An Evening with Author Richard Higgins Details Recording Buy the Book Co-sponsored with the Transcendentalism Council of First Parish
November 3, 2024 – We Take Our Cities With Us: A Conversation with Sorayya Khan Details Recording Buy the Book
October 26, 2024 – An Exuberant Evening with Barbara Mossberg Details No Recording Available
October 6, 2024 – Followed By the Lark: Author Helen Humphreys in Conversation with Jeffrey S. Cramer Details Recording Buy the Book Co-sponsored with the Walden Woods Project.
September 24, 2024 – Using Nature’s Playbook: A Conversation with Jeff Karp Details Recording Buy the Book
July 18, 2024 – Got Seed? Jennifer Jewell, host of the award winning national, public radio program and podcast Cultivating Place in conversation with Tim Johnson, Executive Director, Native Plant Trust Details Recording Buy the Book
June 20, 2024 –Vert: Poet Catherine Staples in Conversation with Richard Higgins Details Recording Buy the Book
May 11, 2024 – Thoreau and the Birds of Concord: A Book Launch with Geoff Wisner Details Recording Buy the Book
April 13, 2024 –Fascinating Stories about Birdsong for Every Week of the Year Details Recording
April 11, 2024 – Outsider: My Boyhood with Thoreau — A Book Talk with Lawrence Millman Details Recording
March 10, 2024 –Blight: Author Emily Monosson in Conversation with Brent Ranalli Details Recording Buy the Book
February 22, 2024 – Wild Stories from the History of Bird Migration Research Details Recording
January 27, 2024 – Unraveling: Author Peggy Orenstein in Conversation with Rebecca Kneale Gould. Details Recording Buy the Book
January 17, 2024 –To the Temple of Tranquility … And Step On It: A Conversation with Ed Begley Jr. Details Recording Buy the Book Co-sponsored with the Walden Woods Project.
2023
November 16, 2023 – “A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate”—Author Talk with William McLean Greeley. Details Recording
October 27, 2023 – I Have More Lives to Live: Thoreau as a Guide to Moral Heroism and Ultimate Resilience—An Evening with Dr. Barbara Mossberg at Thoreau Farm. Details No Recording Available.
October 19, 2023 – Thinking Disobediently: Author Lawrence Buell in Conversation with Rebecca Kneale Gould. Details Recording Buy the Book
October 15, 2023 – Foraging with Jeeves: An Book Launch with Larry Millman. Details Recording
October 5, 2023 – Wild By Design: Author Laura Martin in Conversation with Michelle Nijhuis. Details Recording Buy the Book (be sure to select the Shop at Walden Pond as your Bookstore)
September 7, 2023 – Thoreau’s Axe: Author Caleb Smith in Conversation with Daegan Miller. Details Recording Buy the Book
June 3, 2023 – Church of the Wild: A Conversation with Victoria Loorz. Details Recording Buy the Book (be sure to select the Shop at Walden Pond as your Bookstore)
April 20, 2023 – People & the Planet: Authors Yxta Murray & Daniel Selmi Discuss Their New Books. Details Recording
March 16, 2023 – Beloved Beasts: Author Michelle Nijhuis in conversation with Daegan Miller. Details Recording Buy the Book (be sure to select the Shop at Walden Pond as your Bookstore)
February 7, 2023 – Conversations With Birds: Author Priyanka Kumar in conversation with Scott Russell Sanders. Details Recording
2022
November 17, 2022 – Sounds Wild and Broken: An Author Talk with David George Haskell. Details Recording Buy the Book
November 2, 2022 – The Insect Crisis: Author Oliver Milman in Conversation with Michelle Nijhuis, Details Recording
September 10, 2022 – Thinking Like the Sun: Stellar Knowledge of the Woods, Weeds, Swamp, and Infinity of You — An Author Talk from Dr. Barbara Mossberg. Details Recording
September 8, 2022 – Climate Lyricism: Author Min Hyoung Song in Conversation with Rochelle L. Johnson. Details Recording
May 10, 2022 – Writing Memoir: Tom Montgomery Fate and The Long Way Home. Details Recording