October is always a fun and active time in New England, especially in Concord. Sometimes, there are just TOO many things to do! I included a mention in parentheses of suggested additional activities that the 'Concord Conversations" Group could/are doing. (Contact me in comments if you are interested in joining!)
Concord Concerts, October 18 & 19, 8pm, 51 Walden ($30)
Listings Taken from:
Transcendentalism Council of Concord
Concord Concerts, October 18 & 19, 8pm, 51 Walden ($30)
(Visit Walden Pond ahead of time for recreation of your choice: walking/swimming/kayaking)
Saturday, October 19, 1:30pm-4, Heywood Meadow, Concord Center
Fall Family Ramble on the Amble
(Meet for brunch before or coffee afterwards at Helen's for conversations)
Sunday, October 20, 2-4:30pm, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
"A Walk Through Time"
(also overlaps with a meeting 3:30-5 including refreshments)
(Partake of refreshments)
Sunday Salon: Thoreau’s Flute & Charles Ives’ Concord Sonata
Kyle Gann, Associate Professor of Music at Bard College
Sunday, October 20 at 2 p.m. Thoreau Farm http://thoreaufarm.org/events/ Dr. Gann will talk of the connection of Henry Thoreau and the “Concord Sonata” written by innovative composer Charles Ives. Gann’s forthcoming book, “Essays After a Sonata: Charles Ives’s Concord”, will be released in 2015 by Yale University Press.
Kyle Gann, Associate Professor of Music at Bard College
Sunday, October 20 at 2 p.m. Thoreau Farm http://thoreaufarm.org/events/ Dr. Gann will talk of the connection of Henry Thoreau and the “Concord Sonata” written by innovative composer Charles Ives. Gann’s forthcoming book, “Essays After a Sonata: Charles Ives’s Concord”, will be released in 2015 by Yale University Press.
(Meet at Helen's for dinner)
Concord Museum/Festival of Authors: On PAPER A consideration of all things paper—the invention that revolutionized human civilization: it's thousand-fold uses (and misuses); its sweeping influence on society; its makers, shapers, collectors, and pulpers.
WHO: Nicholas A. Basbanes
WHEN: Sunday, October 20 at 7:30pm
WHERE: Concord Museum
Tuesday, October 22, 7:30pm, Thoreau Institute
Jeffrey Cramer discusses his work
(Meet at Walden Pond for recreation of your choice in the afternoon)
Wednesday morning, October 23, 9:30am-11am, Lincoln Hike
Location:
Roadside pullouts at north end of Sandy Pond Road (south of Garland Road)
(Meet for lunch afterwards)
We can't do everything, but we can try!!
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