Thoreau's Penmanship: How's yours? Don't forget to bring a pen, paper and bug repellent

Wilderness in the City: summer Writing Tour, what Ellet wrote in 1852 and Thoreau in 1861, and what we'll write July 23rd 10am to 12Noon at the EFEIT at the RTA in Eden Prairie.

Thoreau could have written right on the deck of the Franklin Steele as it churned up the Minnesota River. Most likely Ellet wrote from her hotel room in St Paul.

Thoreau's penmanship, according to acquaintances and literary scholars was akin to a cipher, code that you had to translate.

Ellet's and Thoreau's field of vision from their water transport was a panorama of glacially formed accumulations of unconsolidated glacial debris (soil and rock)) and the Big Woods Subsection of Minnesota, much like this recent image of the Minnesota River Valley Wildlife Refuge. 

As an amateur botanist, Thoreau lived, breathed, and penned nature. His journey to Minnesota was his last excursion and the finale of all his natural history projects.

Join us Saturday July 27th...

http://thoreau.library.ucsb.edu/writings_handwritingP.html