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Chicago Thoreau

Henry and friends: The crowd at Walden

In the sixth of Walden’s eighteen chapters, “Visitors,” Thoreau forcefully refutes the enduring myth that he lived as a hermit in...
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The WInter of our Disconnect by Susan Maushart

The Winter of our Disconnect by Susan Maushart is a witty account of how a family lived through six months without technology.No, their electricity...
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Bill Wither's Desperation Gets Loud in new documentary

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation," muses music legend Bill Withers in the new documentary Still Bill. "I would like...
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Emerson, Thoreau featured in Ken Burns's 'National Parks' documentary

In his history of the National Parks in the United States, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, filmmaker Ken Burns and perhaps more precisely,...
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