06/03/2026
Miss Jolin and members of Thoreau Club spent the last two days exploring Concord, Massachusetts to conclude a spring of reading Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Students visited Walden Pond, Louise May Alcott's Orchard House, Ralph Waldo Emerson's house, The Wayside, The Old Manse, The Old North Bridge, The Robbins House, the Paul Revere capture site, Author's Ridge at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, and the Concord Museum. They stayed overnight at Concord's Colonial Inn, shopped the bookstores downtown, and enjoyed ice cream at Kimball Farm. With the curator of collections at The Walden Woods Project, they were also given an opportunity to look through and hold Thoreau's manuscripts, antique books (including first editions of The Maine Woods), and botanical collections created by Thoreau himself.