Exploring Concord: Thoreau Club’s Memorable Field Trip

📖 After two months of studying Walden by Henry David Thoreau, Mr. Miller and Miss Jolin brought five 8th grade students in “Thoreau Club” to Concord, Massachusetts for the club’s yearly culminating overnight field trip. 

Students explored many of the important historic places in Concord where Thoreau and other American Transcendentalists lived, including the Old North Bridge, the Alcotts’ Orchard House, and Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, where they paid their respects to Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. 

They enjoyed a guided tour of the Concord Museum, a visit to the Thoreau Institute Library for a Q&A session with Jeff Cramer (Curator of Collections at The Walden Woods Project), and ended with a walk through the woods at Walden Pond to visit the site of Thoreau’s cabin.

Along the way, they also stopped for ice cream at Kimball Farm, visited bookstores and shops, and spent the night at the historic Colonial Inn in downtown Concord. 

It was a meaningful and memorable trip that brought their year-long study of Thoreau to life! 🖋️