Quiet Lives of Desperation
Accessibility: A tall rectangular stone that lists six members of the Thoreau family with their dates: John, Cynthia, John Jr, Helen, Henry, and Sophia. The wide base of the stone reads: Thoreau, in block letters. It’s in the trees atop Author’s Ridge.
Accessibility: A small grave marker in an almost spade shape, rounded point at the top. It reads simply, Henry. There is a small, synthetic poppy in front of it and a patch of moss on top.
Henry David Thoreau:
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Accessibility Description: The gravestone is literally a giant marble rock with a copper plaque on it. To our right is Ellen Tucker Emerson, his first wife. To our left is Lidian Emerson, his second wife.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Allen, Gay Wilson. Waldo Emerson: A Biography. Viking Press; New York, 1981.
Bull, Lawerence. Emerson. Harvard UP; Cambridge, MA, 2003.
Cramer, Jeffrey S. Solid Seasons: The Friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Counterpoint; Berkeley, CA, 2019.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Modern Library Classics; New York, 2000.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Nature. Independently Published; The Internet, 2020.
Gura, Philip F. American Transcendentalism. Hill and Wang; New York, 2007.
Marcus, James. "Thoreau in Love” The New Yorker. October 11, 2021
Richardson, Robert D. Emerson: The Mind on Fire. U California Press; Berkeley, CA, 1995.
York, Maurice and Rick Spaulding. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Infinitude of The Private Man. Wrightwood Press; Chicago, 2008.
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FindAGrave - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Land Acknowledgment:
We’d like to acknowledge that we recorded this podcast on the traditional lands of the Wampanoag, Pokanoket, and Narragansett peoples. Here in the Northeast and all across the country, native peoples are still here and thriving. For more information, please see the links below.
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