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	Thoreau Lecture 50
		Emerson, who was one of the lyceum’s two curators that season, had initially scheduled Professor Cornelius C. Felton of Harvard College to deliver the lecture that evening, but for some reason Felton’s engagement was moved back one week.
		Thoreau’s was the tenth in a course of sixteen lectures before the Concord Lyceum that season.
		In addition to the manuscript notebook "Concord Lyceum, 1828-1859," which is at MCo, Cameron’s volume contains the surviving records of the Lincoln Lyceum, the Salem Lyceum, and the Lowell Institute of Boston.
	www.walden.org /Institute/thoreau/life/Lecturing/50_Lecture.htm (439 words)

	Salem Massachusetts - Salem Tales
		Lyceums were the brainchild of Joshua Holbrook, who borrowed the concept from the Mechanics Institutes he had encountered in England.
		The expressed purpose of the Salem Lyceum Society was to provide "mutual education and rational entertainment" for both its membership and the general public through a biannual course of lectures, debates and dramatic readings.
		But in the lyceum tradition, the event proved so successful and popular that it had to be repeated a few weeks later.
	www.salemweb.com /tales/lyceum.shtml (704 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Henry David Thoreau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In 1848, Thoreau gave a speech to the Concord Lyceum that would be adapted to be the essay "Resistance to Civil Government," published in 1849.
		The curiosity of Concord residents regarding the reasons for the two years Thoreau spent living in a cabin in the woods led him to give a series of lectures in 1847 about his life at Walden.
		Also in 1854, Thoreau gave a speech on "Slavery in Massachusetts." Though he was not a member of any abolitionist societies, because he opposed the notion of societies, he was fervently opposed to slavery.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_henry_thoreau.html (1422 words)

	Henry David Thoreau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Henry David Thoreau was a writer, philosopher, and naturalist who was born and lived in Concord, Massachusetts.
		He lectured at the Concord Lyceum and elsewhere in New England, and once traveled as far west as Philadelphia.
		A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is the narrative of a boating trip that Thoreau took with his brother John in 1839.
	www.alcott.net /alcott/home/champions/Thoreau.html (434 words)

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		Concord River with its grassy banks, picturesque bridges and continual change of hill and meadow scenery is one of the prettiest that can be found anywhere.
		He came to Concord at midnight, and secreted himself in an old barn which was close to the school-house, and belonged to one Mr.
		Lyceum lectures, on which Emerson depended chiefly, are not what they were; and either of them in a magazine would appear in too startling a contrast with the smooth impersonal writing of to-day.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext05/conap10.txt (22064 words)

	Henry David Thoreau (biography, history, quotes)
		Thoreau studied at Concord Academy (1828-33), and at Harvard University, graduating in 1837.
		He opened a school with his brother John in Concord and taught there in 1838-41 until his brother became fatally ill. From 1848 he was a regular lecturer at Concord Lyceum.
		Aware that he was dying of tuberculosis, Thoreau cut short his travels and returned to Concord, where he prepared some of his journals for publication.
	www.classical-literature.com /a/henry-david-thoreau.html (408 words)

	Soft Serve Girl - photo.a.day
		Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817, in the village of Concord, Massachusetts.
		After graduating from Harvard in 1837, Thoreau returned to Concord, where he taught school, improved and expanded his family's pencilmaking business, and engaged in carpentry, stonemasonry and gardening.
		He also lectured at the Concord Lyceum and elsewhere in New England, and once traveled as far as Philadelphia.
	www.softservegirl.com /2004/05.17.04.html (605 words)

	thoreau
		The 1851 talk to the Concord Lyceum offered an opportunity to defend the proposition that "the forest and wilderness" furnish "the tonics and barks which brace mankind." Thoreau grounded his argument on the idea that wildness was the source of vigor, inspiration, and strength.
		For Thoreau wilderness was a reservoir of wildness vitally important for keeping the spark of the wild alive in man. He prized it, as he wrote in an 1856 letter, "chiefly for its intellectual value.'' More than once he referred to the "tonic" effect of wild country on his spirit.
		Emerson aided his Concord neighbor in expressing the idea: "in history the great moment is when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage....
	www.wsu.edu /~hughesc/thoreau.htm (2035 words)

	Host This is yoUUr life Margaret Fuller:
		Ralph Waldo Emerson: I invited you, Margaret, to Concord for three weeks in the summer of 1836 and was struck by your extreme plainness, your trick of opening and shutting your eyelids and your nasal voice.
		Henry David Thoreau: I was born in Concord in 1817 and consider myself a poet, philosopher, naturalist, essayist and educator.
		In Concord I was befriended by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
	pbisotopes.ess.sunysb.edu /UU-history/Margaret-Fuller.htm (1542 words)

	USATODAY.com - Travel - News - A walk through Thoreau's mind and American history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Also in Concord, the house of Ralph Waldo Emerson — Thoreau's close friend and a pioneering philosopher and writer himself — is worth visiting.
		It was to this peaceful New England lake that a remarkable individual from nearby Concord came to live alone, clearing a spot for a one-room cabin.
		He forged ahead with his studies and writing, and taught at the Concord Lyceum and elsewhere in New England.
	www.usatoday.com /travel/news/features/2003/2003-07-07-walden.htm (1208 words)

	APUS - Unit 5 - Thoreau Jailed for Refusing to Pay Tax
		While Thoreau was in jail, viewing Concord from inside-out, the news of his imprisonment spread rapidly through the village.
		Everyone in Concord soon knew about Thoreau's imprisonment, and Thoreau was aware as he walked through the village that many curious heads turned to see him pass.
		After his death Thoreau's lecture to the Concord Lyceum was published under the title of "Civil Disobedience." Hardly anyone read it during the nineteenth century.
	home.comcast.net /~mruland/APUS/UnitNotes/unit05/Thoreau.htm (2552 words)

	"It takes thirty leaves to make the apple
		Of great use to both men, for example, was the lyceum movement, a cooperative town lecture institution on the order of a public library.
		In Concord as elsewhere in New England, a local lyceum committee provided a room, fuel, lights, and fees for a series of lectures each season.
		The Concord Lyceum was the workshop for his early drafts.
	www.warholfoundation.org /paperseries/article8.htm (5959 words)

	Common-place: Commemorating Concord
		Even in Concord, a slim majority approved the change, and as soon as it became law, townspeople deserted the two existing churches–the Unitarian flock of the Reverend Ripley and an orthodox Calvinist congregation started in 1826–in droves.
		Their members occupied every level of power, from state senator John Keyes to the captain of the Concord Artillery to the editor of the local newspaper, who experienced a sudden change of heart in 1833 and defected to the enemy, converting his press into an organ of Anti-Masonry.
		The story of Concord, he declared in his ceremonial discourse, is the story of liberty.
	www.common-place.org /vol-04/no-01/gross/gross-2.shtml (3464 words)

	Henry David Thoreau biography Transcendentalism Walden
		Thoreau actually took over management of Concord Academy in 1838 and subsequently introduced Bronson Alcott's progressive principles of education where physical punishments were abandoned and pupils were encouraged to participate in classroom discussion.
		This work was eventually titled "A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" and was to become Thoreau's first published full length work in 1849.
		Bronson Alcott, a Transcendentalist friend of Thoreau's and superintendent of Concord's schools, arranged for the closing of the schools on the day of the burial and several hundred persons were in attendance.
	www.age-of-the-sage.org /transcendentalism/henry_david_thoreau.html (1620 words)

	Walden Pond State Reservation
		Thoreau returned to Concord after graduating from Harvard; he taught school, improved and expanded his family’s pencil-making business and engaged in carpentry, stonemasonry and gardening.
		He spent his free time walking, studying, writing and lecturing at the Concord Lyceum and elsewhere in New England.
		On May 6, 1862 at the age of 44, the self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and author renowned for motivating the world to value our natural environment, died after a prolonged struggle with tuberculosis.
	www.mass.gov /dcr/parks/northeast/wldn.htm (959 words)

	HENRY DAVID THOREAU PAPERS, 1836-[1862] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Returned to Concord and, in 1845, built house on Emerson’s land at Walden Pond, where he lived from summer of 1845 until Sept., 1847.
		Journeyed to Cape Cod in 1849 and 1853, to Canada in 1850, to Maine in 1853 and 1857, and to Minnesota (with Horace Mann, Jr.) in 1861.
		107a Plan of Concord River from East Sudbury and Billerica Mills, 22.15 Miles, To be used on a trial in the S.J. Court, Sudbury and East Sudbury Meadow Corporation vs. Middlesex Canal, Taken by agreement of Parties, By L. Baldwin, Civil Engineer.
	www.concordnet.org /library/scollect/Fin_Aids/HDT.html (3743 words)

	CliffsNotes::Thoreau, Emerson, and Transcendentalism:Book Summary and Study Guide
		In the 1830s, Concord was already sensitive to the issue of slavery, but Emerson’s involvement in abolition grew slowly.
		Concord residents took an active part in the Middlesex County Anti-Slavery Society, established in 1834.
		The Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society of Concord was formed in 1837; Lidian Emerson belonged to it from the beginning.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-134,pageNum-25.html (1006 words)

	Ezra Ripley
		At Harvard Ezra was known as "Holy Ripley." Ripley's Harvard class of 1776 was temporarily quartered in Concord during the British occupation of Boston.
		He also instituted a Sabbath school in the church and in 1829 was one of the founders of the Concord Lyceum.
		Other materials for the study of Ripley and the First Parish in Concord are at the Concord Free Public Library in Concord, Massachusetts.
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/ezraripley.html (1242 words)

	Wendell Phillips: The Voice of the Abolition Movement
		A frequent visitor to Concord, he was a moving and powerful speaker and his brilliance at the podium was highly effective in spreading the anti-slavery message.
		Phillips visited Concord on many occasions and he was well acquainted with the town's abolitionists, including Mary Merrick Brooks, Bronson Alcott and the Hoar and Thoreau families.
		Mary Merrick Brooks was the cornerstone of the Concord anti-slavery efforts and she corresponded quite frequently with Phillips, understanding that his visits played an important role in raising anti-slavery awareness in Concord.
	www.concordma.com /magazine/autumn02/slavery.html (1111 words)

	Helen Thoreau, Abolitionist
		In 1837, Helen was one of the founders of the Concord Woman's Anti-Slavery Society, as were her mother and Aunt Maria.
		Of course, not everyone in Concord was as passionate about abolition; abolitionists were more often than not regarded as cranks or troublemakers.
		In the spring of 1845, the curators of the Concord Lyceum (two of whom were Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Thoreau) invited Wendell Phillips to speak on abolition.
	www.concordma.com /magazine/julaug01/helenthoreau.html (1018 words)

	Botanical Index to Thoreau's Journal - Thoreau as Botanist
		The beginnings of Thoreau's exposure to the science of botany date back to his schooldays at the Concord Academy (1828-33), where botany was one of the disciplines taught by Phineas Allen.
		Judging from her herbarium now at the Concord Free Public Library, Sophia Thoreau (1819-76) had an interest in botany that was considerably less scientific than her brother's and more in the aesthetic vein.
		This is the most scientifically useful part of Thoreau's herbarium owing to the presence of collection data, the difficulty of the plant families involved, and the addition of annotations by later botanical experts such as M. Fernald.
	neatlas.huh.harvard.edu /ThoreauBotIdx/ThAsBot.html (5552 words)

	Henry David Thoreau - Free Online Library
		Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, which was center of his life, although he spent several years of his childhood in the neighboring towns.
		With his brother John, Henry opened a school in Concord and taught there in 1838 until 1841, when his brother became fatally ill. From 1848 he was a regular lecturer at Concord Lyceum.
		Two of Thoreau's best-known essays, "Walden" is the account of the solitary years that Thoreau spent in the woods, while "Civil Disobedience" discusses his decision to go to jail instead of paying a poll tax that supported war.
	thoreau.thefreelibrary.com /Walden-&-on-the-Duty-of-Civil-Disobe... (1063 words)

	Transcendental Ethos
		Shortly after graduation, Thoreau was elected five times to office in the Concord Lyceum and from 1838 to 1839 served as Lyceum Secretary.
		Because Thoreau was elected five times to the governing board of the Concord Lyceum, he was much involved with the question of free speech.
		He began work on A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; he wrote the preliminary passages of Walden; and he was arrested for non-payment of his poll tax and spent a night in the Concord jail.
	thoreau.eserver.org /MJF/MJF4.html (5792 words)

	The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
		Despite activities as time-consuming and varied as surveying for the town of Concord and helping a fugitive slave escape to Canada, Thoreau wrote nearly eight hundred manuscript pages in his Journal in the eight months covered by the volume.
		Confirmed in his vocation as a natural historian, he began to compile the richly detailed records of Concord's woods, fields, and streams that would occupy him the rest of his life, and he consciously shaped the Journal to reflect his new aims as a writer.
		During this time Thoreau was working as a surveyor, establishing himself more securely as a contributing member of the Concord community, and he was also pursuing his studies of the natural phenomena of Concord and revising his manuscript of Walden.
	www.library.ucsb.edu /thoreau/project_publications.html (1827 words)

	Thoreau and his Walden Pond Cabin-FREE model
		Henry David Thoreau was born on July l2, 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts.
		On May 6, l862, at the age of 44, the "self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms" died after a prolonged struggle with tuberculosis.
		He is buried on Authors' Ridge at Sleepy Hollow Cemetary in Concord.
	www.fiddlersgreen.net /buildings/new-england/thoreau/info/info.htm (2147 words)

	Concord Museum Exhibits
		A visit begins in the new "Why Concord?" history galleries where questions are posed and answers are sought - - all focused on Concord’s remarkable history from Native American settlement through the 20th century.
		The furniture, textiles, framed engravings, and expensive ceramics were all intended to convey to the visitor that the owner was a person of substance and learning, exactly the qualities a magistrate needed to command authority.
		The mid 18th-century chamber examines this ritual of Concord’s social history, as well as looks at the new furniture storage forms such as the high chest, dressing table and desk which provided much-needed, compartmentalized storage in which textiles and clothing, grooming needs and business and personal papers were readily accessible.
	www.concordmuseum.org /exhibits/exhibits.html (617 words)

	Henry David Thoreau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on July 12, 1817.
		One exception was either July 23 or July 24, 1846, when he was in the Concord Jail for refusing to pay the poll tax.
		On January 26, 1848, Thoreau delivered a lecture to the Concord Lyceum on "the relation of the individual to the State".
	www.auburn.edu /~steelec/thoreau.html (1742 words)

	Concord Players TNT "Playwright visits rehearsals"
		The playwright’s visit is more than a social call: his latest work, “The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail,” is in final rehresals at the Veterans Building, and Lawrence wants to be on hand.
		In the span of six months since then, the play has been under contract for production for more than a hundred theater companies across the nation Hal Walls has bought movies rights for release in ‘71 and ‘72.
		The Thoreau Lyceum with its reconstruction of the Thoreau cabin, the Emerson House, the river and other places here were central to Thoreau’s life and his writings.
	www.concordplayers.org /Press/TNT4_press.html (360 words)

	SparkNotes: Walden: Context
		His personal life was marred by his rejected marriage proposal to Ellen Sewall in 1840, who was forced to turn down Thoreau (as she had turned down his brother, John, before him) because of pressure from her family, who considered the Thoreaus to be financially unstable and suspiciously radical.
		During a journey Thoreau made to Concord in July of 1846, the constable apprehended and imprisoned him for nonpayment of a poll tax that he refused to pay because it supported a nation endorsing slavery.
		In the mild scandal aroused by this gesture against authority, Thoreau defended his actions in a lecture to the Concord Lyceum, in which he publicly expounded his reasons for resisting state authority.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/walden/context.html (1383 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: About Civil Disobedience
		At the time of publication, the country was deeply divided along regional (and racial) lines over the question of slavery.
		The New England Anti-Slavery Society had been founded in 1832, and by the 1840s, Boston and the town of Concord where Thoreau lived for most of his life were considered bastions of abolitionist sentiment.
		Civil Disobedience was first delivered on January 26, 1848 as a lecture at the Concord Lyceum, a center of education for reform-minded thinkers and citizens.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/disobedience/about.html (415 words)

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