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Wendel Refior as Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Fugitive Slave Law: Address to the Citizens of Concord 3 May 1851

Back in 2004 when the town of Concord, MA took over its community access TV station: what a fabulous opportunity it was to create the best community TV in the country. In Concord there is so much history to discuss and so many great things that go on all the time that all you have to do is go out and get and put it on TV. That is not happening, but with the improvements in online video community TV may soon be totally obsolete. Carlisle Video Productions has a substantial library of community programming. This blog provides a great opportunity to make those videos available and as time goes on all of those videos will appear on this blog. Wendell Refior is an Ralph Waldo Emerson scholar and impersonator. Back in 2006 he gave a lecture with Q & A as Mr. Emerson reenacting a speech given by Emerson in Concord back in 1851. The title of the speech is, “The Fugitive Slave Law: Address to the Citizens of Concord, 3 May 1851.

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