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thoreau: second summer
…The second summer at Walden, Thoreau decided he had had enough of agriculture, and so he planted only a third of an acre of garden-just enough for his own use. “I learned from my two years’ experience,” he explained, “that … Continue reading
thoreau: letting his garden grow
Finding a wilderness at Walden and time to develop a sturdy individualist’s philosophy… …But most mornings he devoted to his garden. His bean rows added up to more than seven miles in length and required constant weeding. What is worse, … Continue reading
thoreau at walden: domestic arrangements
…At the end of his first eight months at the pond he found that he had spent a total of $8.74 for food- an average of twenty-seven cents a week. Clothing for the same period cost him only $8.40, and … Continue reading
thoreau: KISS
Although his cabin was only a mile and a half from home, and his sister brought him cookies freshly baked, Henry David Thoreau did find a wilderness by Walden and time to develop a sturdy, individualist’s philosophy… …In the fall … Continue reading
thoreau: voluntary simplicity
…Thoreau was in no haste to move in. Once the frame was up, he did the remaining carpentry slowly, living in the meantime with his parents and walking back and forth to the pond each day, carrying his lunch wrapped … Continue reading
thoreau: raise the roof
…Thoreau began his work at the pond with a borrowed axe. It probably belonged to Bronson Alcott, although after its fame spread it was claimed by both Emerson and Channing. But from whoever he obtained it, he returned it later, … Continue reading
thoreau: to drive life into a corner
…Although his cabin was only a mile and a half from home, and his sister brought him freshly baked cookies, Henry David Thoreau did find a wilderness by Walden and time to develop a sturdy, individualist’s philosophy… …Then in 1845, … Continue reading
fauning the big try
Yet, at the height of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s powers, with a sounder preparation than any American contemporary for fictional tasks still uncompleted, he wrote no fiction to speak of. Like many American writers who followed him, he had come up to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bronson Alcott, Caravaggio, Edgar Allan Poe, Franklin Pierce, Harold Bloom, Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Marble Faun, Ralph Waldeau Enerson, The Scarlet Letter
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SKINNING CATS & LEOPARD SKIN PILLBOX HATS
There they were on a Sunday morning 1n the 1890′s , pedaling with determination along the New Jersey Palisades until they found a quiet stretch of river. Then they stripped off their serviceable knickerbockers and blouses, and bathed, glowing with … Continue reading
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