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Why Thoreau Still Matters: Lessons on Environmentalism & Civil Disobedience

September 27, 2017 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02108 United States

200 years after Henry David Thoreau’s birth in Concord, Massachusetts, a distinguished panel will consider Thoreau’s lessons for today’s world. Explore how Thoreau’s ideas have informed 21st-century civil disobedience and contemporary conversations about humans’ relationships with the natural world. Panelists will include artist and filmmaker PAUL TURANO (Wander, Wonder, Wilderness), LAURA DASSOW WALLS, author of […]

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