Thursday, September 14, 2017 -
7:00pm to 9:30pm
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Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge
Thoreau Bicentennial: Celebrating Henry David’s 200th Birthday at HDS
To honor the life of Henry David Thoreau in the year of his 200th birthday, Harvard Divinity School will host Laura Dassow Walls, author of Henry David Thoreau: A Life and Richard Higgins, author of Thoreau and the Language of Trees to discuss Thoreau's life and work. Respondents include Barry Andrews, a Unitarian Universalist minister who is the author of several books on Transcendentalism and a longtime participant in the Thoreau Society, and Terry Tempest Williams, who is an author, conservationist, and activist who will be a writer-in-residence at HDS during the 2017–18 academic year.
The discussion will be followed by a reception.
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Daniel McKanan
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