November 12 – THOREAU AND THE LANGUAGE OF TREES: AN ILLUSTRATED LECTURE
Location: Wolbach Farm, Sudbury
Time: 7:00-8:30pm
Speaker: Richard Higgins, Writer and Editor
Henry Thoreau loved trees and saw and wrote about them as few others have. He admired their beauty and found poetic forms and mythic meaning in them. In this lecture, Richard Higgins will pair selections from Thoreau’s writing with current and historic photographs and images of trees, exploring the writer’s passion for trees, how he saw them, and his imaginative response to them. Thoreau called the trees around Walden “slender eyelashes fringing earth’s liquid eye.” The presentation will include photos taken by Richard Higgins, images by the great landscape photographer Herbert Wendell Gleason, and Thoreau’s own sketches of trees. Richard Higgins was a staff writer at The Boston Globe and editor of four books, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, and Smithsonian , among other publications.
SVT Members Fee: Free: Non-Member Fee: $10, www.svtweb.org/events-calendar
Sudbury Valley Trustees is a regional land trust that conserves land and protects wildlife habitat in the Concord, Assabet, and Sudbury river basin for the benefit of present and future generations.
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