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Resources. www.poets.org www.americanpoets.com. Henry David Thoreau. born in concord, massachusettes He was introduced to the countryside at a young age, and this first contact with the natural world sparked a lifelong fascination

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  1. Resources • www.poets.org • www.americanpoets.com

  2. Henry David Thoreau • born in concord, massachusettes • He was introduced to the countryside at a young age, and this first contact with the natural world sparked a lifelong fascination • Although his family lived in relative poverty, subsisting on the income from their small pencil-making busines • Thoreau was able to attend Harvard, where he gained an early reputation as an individualist.

  3. Henry David Thoreou • Poet • Writer • He lived in poverty • Had a pencil making business

  4. poems • Thoreau was able to attend Harvard, where he gained an early reputation as an individualist •  •Cape Cod - Four trips to the Cape from 1849 to 1857 are narrated as a single visit; Henry walked most of the way. With photos and links, including Henry's own map.

  5. The links to photographs below create both a chronological and a geographical tour of Walden Pond. The older pictures are the furthest from the cabin site, beginning with a view of the pond from a nearby hill, looking much as it would have appeared to Thoreau. The newest photos get down to the details of the stones that mark the site today.

  6. I hear Barrett's sawmill running by night to improve the high water.... • ---Journal, May 5, 1852

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