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What Was Walden Pond Likehello y'all this is going to be one of a,few brief videos that I'll be maki
Updated on Jan 29,2023
What Was Walden Pond Like
hello y'all this is going to be one of a,few brief videos that I'll be making for,Henry David Thoreau's book Walden and,this video is all about a question that,I get every semester for my students,what did Walden Pond look like when,Henry David Thoreau lived there and what,does it look like now so let's get,started a lot of times students wonder,well gosh where is Concord Massachusetts,where Walden Pond is of course located,and where is Walden in comparison to say,Boston and I always like to show people,that well it's not that far from Boston,and so you can see here I have a little,red arrow it's pointing actually to,Walden Pond itself you can see in,Concord right here where the roast,friend Ralph Waldo Emerson lived there,they know Hawthorne the author of The,Scarlet Letter lived there as well for a,time as well as of course Louisa May,Alcott the author of Little Women you,can see that it's not very far from at,all from Boston and in fact in the roast,time he was able to take a train from,Concord to Boston and be there within a,day what did it look like,where Thoreau built his house this is,what he says he says my house is on the,side of a hill immediately on the edge,of the larger wood in the midst of a,young forest with pitch pines and,hickories and half a dozen rods that's,100 feet from the pond to a chain narrow,footpath led down the hill in my front,yard through the strawberry blackberry,in life everlasting John's wort and,goldenrod shrub oaks and sand cherry,blueberry and ground so it's a lot of,words a lot of herbs and a lot of little,bushes and things like that but it's a,little bit harder to visualize it so,we'll be getting to that just to say if,you look on the right side of your,screen though you'll see a photo here,this is a photo that I actually took on,a recent research trip to Walden Pond,where they have actually built a replica,of Thoreau's house you may notice that I,am not calling it a cabin that's because,Thoreau was very very firm and calling,it a house and so you can see a little,replica hid there and they actually have,a replica of Thoreau himself it's it's,quite remarkable,if you're wondering just how,small this house was you can see it here,the house was torn down not long after,throw ceased living there but,archaeologists actually discovered the,foundation of that house in the early,20th century and so you can see here,that it's very it was very very small,you can see that it's marked out and you,can see where you had a stove here in,the back of the house you can also take,a look and you can see that there was a,footpath this is heading back towards,Concord and you can also see a little,bit of just how green and forested the,land still is I find this picture very,very fascinating it was taken in roughly,1908 this is a Library of Congress,picture taken by the Detroit publishing,company and this is a view from the site,of Thoreau's house looking toward the,pond and so you can see that he was,indeed about 100 feet from the pond you,can see that he's he has indeed to built,his house on the side of a hill looking,down on the pond and so as he read,Walden I really invite you to come back,to this picture and think of what his,view would have been so given that this,was taken in 1908 that's only 50 years,or so after he lived there and so it's,not very hard to imagine his view,looking not at all different from this,one if you're wondering what that pile,of rocks is there in the video that's,actually a mount a mound of sorts in,memory of Thoreau so the story goes,after he died is very very good friend,amos bronson alcott who is the father of,louisa may alcott,came to pay his respects and tossed a,stone near the cabin and so ever since,then everyone who comes by the cabin,finds a stone and leaves it there and so,if you go these days it's quite a big,mountain deep finally this is another,picture that i took from our research,trip and i just wanted to give you a,nice color image of what the pond looks,like today you can see that it is still,very very very well forested very green,the reason for that is actually Don,Henley of the Eagles,in years ago and provided a great amount,of public support and a great amount of,personal funding in order to create a,Walden Pond National Natural Area and,that's why it's so very very well,preserved but you can see that it is,remarkably blue just as Thoreau says,that it is and a remarkably calm and so,it's a beautiful place to go and if you,ever find yourself in Boston I cannot,recommend it enough so that's it for me,for this video I hope you enjoyed it and,you got to learn a little bit about what,does Walden Pond look like thank you,very much
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