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The Thoreau Society

Honorary Advisors Edward O. Wilson, PhD Conservation Biologist

Terry Tempest Williams Nature Writer and Conservationist

James E Francis Sr. Penobscot Nation Tribal Historian

Board of Directors

Officers Ronald Hoag, PhD Grimesland, NC “Only that day dawns to which we are awake. President There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.” Michael Schleifer, CPA Walden, Henry D. Thoreau Brooklyn, New York Treasurer November 19, 2019 Deborah Medenbach Kerhonkson, NY Clerk Dear Friends, Directors Please join with our Board of Directors—who have collectively pledged $14,000 for the year— Robert Clarke Woodbury, CT in making a generous, tax-deductible contribution to the Thoreau Society. This final Annual

Phyllis Cole, PhD Appeal is the financial foundation of our organization. We need your help to meet our Barrington, RI $40,000 challenge.

Theodore David, JD Ramsey, NJ Your support ensures that we can maintain our offices at Thoreau Farm and the Shop at Walden Pond as well as our core activities, including the Thoreau Society Bulletin, Concord Saunterer: Harrison A. Glasgow Manassas, VA A Journal of Thoreau Studies, the Thoreau Society Collections, the Annual Gathering, our academic conference participation and public programs. With your help last year, the Society Jayne Gordon Damariscotta, ME added nearly one hundred new members.

Rebecca K. Gould, PhD North Ferrisburgh, VT “There is more day to dawn.” Robert A. Gross, PhD Concord, MA As a member of the Thoreau Society, you join with others in all fifty US states, in the Richard Higgins Penobscot Nation, and in twenty other countries around the world. Our organization clearly Concord, MA has broad reach and relevance in the lives, works, and legacies of those who engage with us. Rochelle Johnson, PhD And, yes, all of our members leave their own Thoreauvian Boise, ID legacy in the Society they support. Dennis Noson, PhD Seattle, WA Thoreau Society members have deep roots at a pondside Henrik Otterberg, PhD cabin site in Concord, Massachusetts. In the fall of 1945, a Gothenburg, Sweden number of our members joined Roland Robbins in Paul Schacht, PhD Rochester, NY uncovering the hearthstone of Thoreau’s Walden home. (Mrs. Caleb) Ruth Wheeler, herself a resident of Thoreau Farm on Virginia Road, joined with Robbins that historic day. There is no shortage of inspirational stories about Thoreau and his readers. Every year thousands of them come to Concord to discover “Henry” at Walden Pond, Thoreau Farm, or some hidden nook rarely visited except by minks and muskrats. Upon seeing the cabin site, John Muir remarked, “No wonder Thoreau lived here two years. I could have enjoyed living here two hundred or two thousand.”

The Thoreau Society is committed to diversity and inclusion. We recognize that the contributions of all will result in a more vital organization and a more vital world, and we work together in fellowship to fulfill our mission goals:

 to encourage research on Thoreau’s life and works and enhance our repository of Thoreau-related materials at the Thoreau Institute Library. We were recently gifted the papers of Walter Brain, a founding member of the Thoreau Country Conservation Alliance (TCCA), the early group active in preserving Walden Woods from development. The collection also established the TCCA Graduate Fellowship Fund for research.

 to educate the public about Thoreau’s ideas and their application to contemporary life through our independent programs; our partnership with the Concord Historical Collaborative; and our close relationship with Thoreau Farm including our latest joint program, the Write Connection.

 to ensure Thoreau’s legacy and advocate for the preservation of Thoreau Country, including our continuing presence at Walden Pond State Reservation, with its half million annual visitors, and our active engagement with the Maine Woods “Thoreau-Wabanaki Trail” and the Penobscot Nation.

With your support we are planning a significant Annual Gathering of the Thoreau Society for 2020, “Thoreau and Diversity: People, Principles, and Politics,” with Keynote Speaker Ibram X. Kendi, 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, recent National Book Award winner, New York Times bestselling author, and founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University.

We hope you will join with us in generous support of ideas that matter!

Sincerely yours,

Michael J Frederick, Ron Hoag, Executive Director President (Benefactor) (Angel)

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