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Engineering Thoreau: Nature, Technology & the Connected Life T H O R E A U S O C I E T Y ANNUAL GATHERING 2019 Engineering Thoreau: Nature, Technology & the Connected Life Special event honoring Mary Oliver JULY 10TH-14TH 2019 CONCORD, MA THOREAU SOCIETY STAFF ANNUAL GATHERING STAFF Michael J. Frederick, Executive Director Magdalena Bermudez, Program Coordinator Chynna Lemire, Business Manager Tedi Lewis, Registration Assistant Kevin Webb, Membership Coordinator Peter Alden, Registration Assistant Jussi Silliman, Hospitality Coordinator Corinne Smith, Shop Supervisor William Bermudez, Audio-Visual Technician Jamie McCarthy, Shop Buyer Alex Leombruno, Audio-Visual Technician Peter Alden, Shop Associate Charlanne Maynard, Shop Associate Richard Smith, Shop Associate Theodore David, JD HONORARY ADVISORS Ramsey, NJ Terr y Tempest Williams Harrison A. Glasgow Nature Writer and Conservationist Manassas, VA Edward O. Wilson, PhD Jayne Gordon Conservation Biologist Damariscotta, ME James E. Francis Sr. Robert A. Gross, PhD Penobscot Nation Concord, MA Tr i b a l H i s t o r i a n Rebecca Kneale Gould, PhD Board of Directors North Ferrisburgh, VT Officers Michael Lorence Ronald Hoag, PhD Williamsburg, VA Grimesland, NC President Rochelle Johnson, PhD Boise, ID Robert Clarke Woodbur y, CT Henrik Otterberg, PhD Tre a s u re r Gothenburg, Sweden Deborah Medenbach Paul Schacht, PhD Kerhonkson, NY Rochester, NY Clerk Michael Schleifer, CPA Directors Previous Past President Brooklyn, New York Phyllis Cole, PhD Barrington, RI Michael Stoneham, PhD Washingtonville, NY The Thoreau Society Annual Gathering 2019 PROGRAM NOTES 3.27.19 Catherine Stapes title changed from The Contents of Henry’s Pockets: A Poetry Read- ing to A Plummet Line, a Pencil, an Arrowhead to A Plummet Line, a Pencil, an Arrowhead. 4.1.19 David K. Leff awarded the Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship and Jake A. McGin- nis awarded the Graduate Student Fellowship. 4.1.19 Hunter Cambon moved from Sunday, July 14th at 9-10am Lower Level, to Thursday, July 11th 2:15-3:45 pm Lower Level Panel. 4.1.19 Mark Gallagher is unable to attend, drops out of Thursday, July 11th 2:15-3:45 pm Lower Level Panel. 4.7.19 Phyllis Cole added to chair Thursday, July 11th 7:30-9 pm Panel. 4.7.19 Sarah Ann Wider added to chair Friday, July 12th 10:30-12 pm Main Level Panel. 4.13.19 Richard Myers cannot attend Gathering, drops out of Thursday, July 11th, 8:45-10:15 am Main Level Panel. 4.17.19 Jym St. Pierre and Michael Stoneham changed their titles. 4.17.19 Due to a scheduling conflict Catherine Staples was moved from Sunday 10:15-11:15am to Thursday 10:30-12 pm. 4.22.19 Michael Schleifer changed his title to Thoreau and Humor. 5.18.19 Karen Buckland cannot attend, opens slot on Thursday afternoon 2:15-3:45 pm. 6.6.19 David Leff changed from Sunday morning to Saturday 2:30-3:45 and changed his title to A Gathering of Poets on Henry David Thoreau: From Louisa May Alcott to Mary Oliver. 6.7.19 Renee Silvus moved from Sunday at 9am to Sunday at 11:30am. 6.26.19 Renee Silvus is not able to attend the Gathering. 6.28.19 The Lasting Legacy program moved to the Heritage Room of the Colonial Inn. 6.28.19 Henrik Otterberg canceled his presentation The Thoreau Pencil: A New Look at Sourc- es & Composition on Friday, July 12th at 1pm. 6.28.19 Gordon Anderssen switches to Sunday at 11:30am. 6.30.19 Leslie Bartlett and Gordon Anderssen switch Sunday spots, Leslie Bartlett will now present at 11:30am and Gordon Anderssen at 10:15am. The Thoreau Society Annual Gathering EVENT MAP Old Manse Thoreau Farm & Toreau Birthhouse 341 Virginia Road Monument Street Bedford Street Virginia Road Lowell Street Colonial Inn Masonic Temple Old Bedford Road Keyes Road Alcott House Keyes Road Parking Lot First Parish Church Lexington Road Concord Museum Main Street Emerson House Concord Free Public Library Trinity Episcopal Church ANNUAL GATHERING 2019 Engineering Thoreau: Nature, Technology, and the Connected Life Keynote Panel, Jayne Gordon (Moderator) Saturday, 10:45-noon, at First Parish Our distinguished panelists are Lawrence Buell (Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature, Harvard University emeritus), Rebecca Kneale Gould (Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Middlebury College), Richard Higgins (Writer and editor and author of Thoreau and the Language of Trees), Robert Gross (Draper Professor of Early American History, University of Connecticut emeritus), and Robert Thorson (Professor of Geology, University of Connecticut). Saturday, 1:15-2:15 pm Special Event Honoring Mary Oliver Deborah Cramer, author of The Narrow Edge, Smithsonian Ocean, and Great Water, will honor the late and beloved poet, Mary Oliver, 2019 Thoreau Prize Winner. W E D N E S D A Y, JULY 10TH 5-7pm Registration Masonic 7-9pm Transcendental Theater Opening Remarks, Michael Frederick Henry Thoreau’s Heroic Journey, Michael Sperber Thoreau/Twain: Brothers on the River, Tammy Rose T H U R S D A Y, JULY 11TH 6:30 am Punkatasset Hill Walk Meet at Keyes Rd Lot Led by Peter Alden 8 am Registration Masonic 8:45-10:15 am Presentations Masonic Main Level Rebecca Kneale Gould, PhD, Panel Chair Figure in the Mist: The Death of John Thoreau Jr. and the Changing Worlds of A Week, Audrey Raden, PhD, New York Theological Seminary How the Crystal Hills Became Woedolor Mountain, Wende Lark Greenberg, PhD “What’s the Railroad to Me?”: Teaching the Complexity of Thoreau’s Response to Technology, Christina Root Lower Level Cultivating a different kind of garden: Thoreau, Lawn-care, and the Modern Mowing Mania, Michael Stoneham, PhD, Humanities Chair, University of Pittsburgh Johnstown, Panel Chair As a Forest of Wildlife: Observations on The Working Landscapes of Thoreau’s New England and the Adirondacks, NY, Marianne Patinelli-Dubay, PhD, Environmental Philosophy Program, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Thoughts from Building a Replica House; or, I and Thoreau’s Chimney, Ed Gillin, PhD, Professor of English, SUNY-Geneseo Power politics, inspired persistence, and good luck in Thoreau’s Maine Woods, Jym St. Pierre, Michael Kellett 10:30-noon Presentations Masonic Main Level Maine Woods Panel Rediscovering the Maine Woods: Thoreau’s Legacy in an Unsettled Land, John J. Kucich, PhD, discussion with Robert Thorson, PhD, Laura Dassow Walls, PhD, Dale Potts and Chris Sockalexis Lower Level “Tell me who you go with”… The Ellery Connection, Theodore David, JD, Professor of Law and Taxation, Panel Chair Dark Thoreau Revisited, Geoff Wisner The Other ‘Hermit’ of Thoreau’s Walden Pond: The Sojourn of Edmond Stuart Hotham, Terry Barkley, M.A.T., M.L.S., C.M.S. A Plummet Line, a Pencil, an Arrowhead, Catherine Staples, PhD, Villanova University 12-1 pm Catered Lunch Masonic Saltbox Kitchen, farm to table 12-1 pm Special Event: Lasting Legacy Program Colonial Inn, Heritage Room Ron Hoag, President; Michael Schleifer, Treasurer; and Ted David, Membership and Development Chair This session is open to those who would like to learn more about naming the Thoreau Society as a beneficiary in their estate planning. A complimentary lunch catered by the Colonial Inn will be provided by the Thoreau Society. 1-2 pm Presentations Masonic Main Level Sounds like Steam Spirit: the Railroad as Inspiration and Crisis in Thoreau’s Walden, Henrik Otterberg, PhD Lower Level Life on Fire: The Technology of Walden, Diana Lorence Special Event: Tea Ceremony Colonial Inn, Thoreau Room Tea With Thoreau, Sinton Stranger, MA, Comparative Literature, USC, MSTC, Urasenke Tankokai LAA, Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, docent Chinese and Japanese Tea Garden 2:15-3:45 pm Presentations Masonic Main Level Jayne Gordon, Panel Chair Engineering Through Junior High Language Arts with Henry David Thoreau, Donna Marie Pryzbojewski, Junior High Language Arts teacher at St. Benedict Catholic School After STEM: Henry David Thoreau’s Contributions toward Consilience, John Barthell, PhD Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Central Oklahoma Thoreau’s Questions, Geoff Wisner Lower Level Thoreau and Humor, Michael Schleifer, Panel Chair Thoreau in Billerica, MA, Marlies Henderson Thoreau: Teacher of Teachers, Hunter Cambon, English Teacher, St. Thomas Aquinas High School Wheeler-Thoreau Shanty Site Discovery, Jeffrey Craig Special Event: Walk with Robert Thorson Meet at Keyes Rd Lot The Making of Walden Pond, Robert Thorson, PhD, Professor of Geology, University of Connecticut 4-5:30 pm Presentations Masonic Main Level Thoreau Farm Presentation Saving Thoreau’s Birthplace: How Citizens Rallied to Bring Henry Out of the Woods, Lucille Stott Lower Level Henry David Thoreau in Defense of Uncivil Disobedience, James Mathew, MD Ignoring ‘Fort Sumter, & Old Abe, & all that’: Lincoln, Thoreau and the Myths of Abolitionism, Susan Gallagher, PhD, Associate Professor Emeritus, UMass Lowell, Panel Chair Concord Community and Emerson’s Antislavery Movement, Izumi Ogura, Daito Bunka University 5:30-7:30 pm Dinner on your own 7:30-9 pm Emerson Society Panel Masonic Transcendentalism: Men and Women Conversing, Part I, co-sponsored by the Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Louisa May Alcott Societies Phyllis Cole, PhD, Panel Chair The Vexed Nature of Home: Concord in 1845, Sarah Ann Wider, PhD Margaret Fuller and John Neal Conversing, Fritz Fleischmann, PhD, Professor of English Helen Thoreau’s Brother Henry and Lucretia Mott, Audrey Raden, PhD, New York Theological Seminary Darkened Domesticity: The Sturgis Sisters in Dialogue with Emersonian Poetics, Kathy Lawrence, PhD, Aff. Associate Professor, Department of English, Georgetown University 9-10 pm Emerson Society Social Masonic Honoring Leslie Wilson, Curator of the William Munroe Special Collections at the CFPL since 1996. F R I D A Y, J U L Y 1 2 T H 6:30 am A Walk to Thoreau’s Boiling Spring & Deep Cut Meet at Keyes Rd Lot Henrik Otterberg, Corinne Smith and Bob Young 8 am Registration Masonic 8:45-10:15 am Presentations Masonic Main Level Rochelle Johnson, panel chair Henry’s Best Science, Robert Thorson, PhD, Professor of Geology, University of Connecticut ‘I Should Like to Invent Useful Machinery’ - John Muir, Alexander von Humboldt, and Henry David Thoreau, J.
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