The Thoreau Society Charter Members in 1941
The Society, formed in 1941, was bought & assimilated by Don Henley, popstar into
The New Thoreau Society, governed by www.walden.org in Lincoln, MA. The Thoreau Society has since separated and now find themselves in Concord, housed in the building in which Thoreau was born, on Virginia Avenue, and is predominantly academics.
The Transient and Cosmic Thoreau Society, the common society, open to All.
Edwin Way Teale, a renown writer naturalist in the twentieth century, was a friend of Esther Anderson. Esther photograhed Edwin and Nellie Teale in a beaver house.
Pictures of Edwin & Nellie, and Trailwood Teale, here
"I remember Esther, Edwin Teale and Walter Harding in her parlor on a summer afternoon, enjoying tea. The conversation was vibrant, full of energy and humor, and, of course, insight. I was reticent to pull-out my camera (young fool!) and capture the three of them in Esther's famous 'goldfish bowl' parlor at "Glenside". Good Nature too, was in company." wwa
Thoreau Country videotape [45 minutes]
Introduction by Walter Harding.
Produced and Narrated by William Wheeler Anderson.
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