Good things can come from remodeling, not just the fact that there are improvements being made, but that you get to move your stuff around. Last Saturday, as I previously mentioned, Dad and I installed a hardwood floor. Mom and I moved some of her books out of the room we were working in. In doing so, she found a book that both of us had to re-read. It is a young adult book, but it is the dearest book, titled Little Mouse, The Mouse Who Lived with Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond, by Bill Montague:
This led me to have to locate the photos Mom and I took when visiting Concord, MA in 1998, pre-digital. Once I found some of them, I had to scan them in. The next four photos are taken approximately 200 feet north of the north shore at Walden Pond. In the first photo, the stone reads: ‘Site of Thoreau’s cabin, discovered Nov. 11, 1845 by Roland Wells Robbins’:
Here’s the Cairn:
According to Bill Montague, ‘The first stones were placed here in June 1872 by Bronson Alcott of Concord & Mrs. Adams of Dubuque, Iowa to mark Thoreau’s house site.’
The next photo reads ‘Beneath these Stones lies the Chimney Foundation of Thoreau’s Cabin 1845-1847. Go thou my incense upward from this hearth.’
The following photo is a sign with a quote from Thoreau:
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
And see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” — Thoreau
This next photo is the Thoreau family monument taken at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, located in Concord, MA:
Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, MA on July 12, 1817. He died on May 6, 1862, at the young age of 44 years.
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