“Thoreau on Rivers” with Jeffery S. Cramer

Jeffrey S. Cramer will talk about Henry D. Thoreau's relationship with rivers, looking at the river as both a solid yet fluid feature of the landscape as well as a spiritual symbol.  Thoreau found a personal reflection in the "chips and weeds," that floated past on the river. "fulfilling their fate."  As Cramer wrote in "The Quotable River," for Thoreau "a mountain was never just a mountain, a river never merely a river."  Please join us for a special evening as we hear about why Thoreau thought "what a piece of wonder the river is."

Jeffrey S. Cramer is the editor of "Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition," "I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau,"  "The
Quotable Thoreau" and "The Portable Thoreau," among others.
Jim Flemming, of Wisconsin Public Radio, recently said, "Jeffrey Cramer lives and breathes Thoreau.  He may know more about the bard at Walden Pond than anyone else alive." Cramer is the Curator of Collections at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods. He has appeared on various radio and television programs, including "On Point with Tom Ashbrook," WUMB-Boston's Commonwealth Journal, Wisconsin Public Radio's "To the Best of Our Knowledge," and C-SPAN's Book-TV. His essays and other writings have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Literary Review, and The Christian Science Monitor, and other journals, and have appeared in such collections as The Reality of Breastfeeding, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and The Robert Frost Encyclopedia. Author's website: www.jeffreyscramer.com.

A selection of Jeffrey Cramer's books will be on sale before and after the lecture.

This is a presentation of the Friends of the Assabet River NWR.  We hold our monthly lecture series at the US Fish and Wildlife Services' Eastern Mass. Visitor Center, 680 Hudson Road, Sudbury, MA 02776.  Talks are free and open to the public.  For more information about our programs, membership and the Refuge, please visit www.farnwr.org. 

Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge is 2333 acres and located in the towns of Stow, Maynard, Sudbury and Hudson.  The Refuge has 25 miles of hiking trails and 7.5 miles of biking trails.  The Visitor Center for the Eastern Mass. National Wildlife Refuge Complex has interactive, hands-on educational exhibits, a multi-purpose meeting room, and a Friends Nature Store.