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Originally Posted by pholy
Indeed... Back when I worked for DEC, if I had to visit the headquarters for a class, I'd stay in Concord. I walked around Walden Pond, and saw the 'the rude bridge that arched the flood'... or at least a replica.
It does bring it all alive.
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It certainly does. I wonder how many people think that Thoreau lived a hermit-like existence while at Walden Pond, rather than the reality that he walked into town most every day for lunch? "Walden" and his essay "Civil Disobedience" were such excellent works, but very few ever read his 18-volume journal that he self-published, and was, by ALL accounts, absolutely horrible reading! And certainly very few realized that for most of his life, he worked making pencils...
There is a certain skewed 'reality' to visiting the footsteps we find in books.
Stitchawl