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thoreau: passing time at the pond

…One of his most frequent visitors was Alek Therien, the French-Canadian wood chopper later immortalized in Walden. Therien, almost exactly Thoreau’s age, had come down from Canada when he was in his teens. Although their backgrounds were very different, they … Continue reading

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thoreau: free time for first draft

…A good part of Thoreau’s new-found free time he was able to devote to writing. The first work he completed at the pond was an extended essay on Thomas Carlyle. As early as 1842 he had begun making notes on … Continue reading

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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

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burton and the polygamy riddle

…The Mormons at this time were considered a great curiosity in England. Since the murder of Joseph Smith in Illinois in 1844, and the subsequent dramatic exodus to the desert isolation of the great inland sea, the sect had flourished … Continue reading

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