You say you want a Revolution...
29th July 2025
The Thoreau Society in Concord, MA recently relocated its Annual Gathering to the
Trinity Episcopal Church at 81 Elm Street in Concord. The Gathering had previously been held in the Masonic Lodge (1820) without AC. Perhaps global warming pressed this change as the annual schedule coincides with Thoreau's birthday, July 12.
This year's theme was "Thoreau's Revolution" commemorating John Lennon,--- No No the
250th anniversary of the shots fired in Concord, Ma in 1775 marking the commencement of the Revolutionary War. Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1837 poem "Concord Hymn" includes the much quoted phrase in the first verse:
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.
For Thoreau followers, Emerson is never far away. But for many, Henry is the beacon of radical thought and his very being is a flame around which we circle.
Because the Episcopal Church's large meeting room is also an impressive gallery space the Thoreau Society asked for submissions on "Thoreau's Revolution" as their first ever Art Exhibition. I was included in the 20 works, each with statements. The show will be on the walls through August 2025.
Fire in Winter, Walden Woods, Concord, MA 43x40"
My statement on Thoreau and Revolution:
Thoreau saw scant distinctions between mind, body, and the nature that surrounded him.
This is a revolutionary concept that was for Thoreau as natural as breathing.
The evolution of organic nature feeds man’s evolution in moral and intellectual reality.
Fire in Winter seems contradictory. But only in the synergy between all existing forces, can life persist.
"There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill.” Henry David Thoreau From his essay “A Winter’s Walk “ 1843
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Somehow I can well imagine Henry Thoreau and John Lennon having a remarkable exchange.
Trinity Episcopal Church at 81 Elm Street in Concord. The Gathering had previously been held in the Masonic Lodge (1820) without AC. Perhaps global warming pressed this change as the annual schedule coincides with Thoreau's birthday, July 12.
This year's theme was "Thoreau's Revolution" commemorating John Lennon,--- No No the
250th anniversary of the shots fired in Concord, Ma in 1775 marking the commencement of the Revolutionary War. Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1837 poem "Concord Hymn" includes the much quoted phrase in the first verse:
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.
For Thoreau followers, Emerson is never far away. But for many, Henry is the beacon of radical thought and his very being is a flame around which we circle.
Because the Episcopal Church's large meeting room is also an impressive gallery space the Thoreau Society asked for submissions on "Thoreau's Revolution" as their first ever Art Exhibition. I was included in the 20 works, each with statements. The show will be on the walls through August 2025.
Fire in Winter, Walden Woods, Concord, MA 43x40"
My statement on Thoreau and Revolution:
Thoreau saw scant distinctions between mind, body, and the nature that surrounded him.
This is a revolutionary concept that was for Thoreau as natural as breathing.
The evolution of organic nature feeds man’s evolution in moral and intellectual reality.
Fire in Winter seems contradictory. But only in the synergy between all existing forces, can life persist.
"There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill.” Henry David Thoreau From his essay “A Winter’s Walk “ 1843
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Somehow I can well imagine Henry Thoreau and John Lennon having a remarkable exchange.