[LincolnTalk] Fwd: Join us TOMORROW NIGHT Thoreau's Axe with Caleb Smith at The Write Connection at Thoreau Farm 📖

[Sara Mattes]

Title: Join us TOMORROW NIGHT Thoreau's Axe with Caleb Smith at The Write Connection at Thoreau Farm 📖

And just around the corner, next door for Battle Road Farm Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: From: Thoreau Farm <i...@thoreaufarm.org> Date: September 6, 2023 at 8:25:49 AM MDT To: samat...@gmail.com Subject: Join us TOMORROW NIGHT Thoreau's Axe with Caleb Smith at The Write Connection at Thoreau Farm 📖 Reply-To: Thoreau Farm <i...@thoreaufarm.org>  Distraction and Discipline in American Culture View this email in your browser TOMORROW at 7PM Thoreau's Axe: Author Caleb Smith in conversation with Daegan Miller Thursday, September 7 7pm At Thoreau Farm and Online Registration Required Smith’s book Thoreau’s Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture, explores how 19th-century Americans understood the problem of distraction, as well as the ways they tried to rehabilitate their powers of attention. $10 to attend in person at Thoreau Farm $5 to attend online PRAISE FOR THOREAU'S AXE: "With a colloquial tone, Smith makes a solid case that the contemporary take on distraction. . . is an old one that came about in the 19th century. . . . The result is a rousing academic study on the meanings of mindfulness." —Publishers Weekly "A fascinating meditation on “the ‘infinite bustle’ of modern life." —Robert M. Thorson, Wall Street Journal “Thoreau’s Axe is an elegantly written meditation on how a medicine can also be a poison. Smith shows us that our concern with attention and how to manage it has a much longer backstory than we might expect, and that the disciplining of our attention can be at once a technique of domination and a means of liberation.” —Emily Ogden, author of On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays Learn More Register to Join IN-PERSON at Thoreau Farm Register to Join ONLINE via Zoom Caleb Smith is a professor of English and American studies at Yale University. His books includeThe Prison and the American Imagination, The Oracle and the Curse, and an edition of Austin Reed’s 1858 prison memoir, The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict. Smith will be joined in conversation by critic and essayist Daegan Miller. Miller writes about landscape, about how we make a place for ourselves in the world, and about how we make sense of that place-making. He is the author of This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent, which Robert Macfarlane chose as a Best Book of the Year for The Guardian.  Learn More Register to Join IN-PERSON at Thoreau Farm Register to Join ONLINE via Zoom REGISTER FOR FALL PROGRAMS presented by Click Here to See All Upcoming Programs MEMOIR WORKSHOP No story is like yours — and your telling it is powerful and necessary. Join this workshop to find your woods and tell your story. National memoirist & distinguished teacher Dr. Barbara Mossberg invites you “to the woods” — a place of focus, inspiration, connection, and support for developing your memoir. This workshop is designed to invite, inquire, and invoke your own “woods” through Thoreau’s lens of living purposefully. Learn More and Register AUTHOR EVENTS Wild By Design: A conversation with Author Laura Martin Thursday, October 5 at 7pm Restoration’s past provides vital knowledge for climate change policy, but Martin also offers something more―a meditation on what it means to be wild and a call for ecological restoration that is socially just. FREE to attend online $5 suggested donation in support of The Write Connection  Wild By Design: A Conversation with Author Laura Martin is an event in association with the Thoreau’s Cape Cod Readathon, a first-of-its-kind event brought to you by The Barnstable Land Trust and partners, including Thoreau Farm. The Readathon will be held October 7 & 8 at Fuller Farm in Marstons Mills as well as live-streamed. Find out more at https://blt.org/thoreau Foraging With Jeeves: A Book Launch with Lawrence Millman Sunday, October 15 at 2pm This book defies any known genre, just as fungi often tend to defy our attempts to identify them. Think science (the Salem witchcraft fungus) followed by satire (a fungal Faust) followed by an account of what sort of fungi one might find in Antarctica.   FREE to attend in person at Thoreau Farm FREE to attend online Thinking Disobediently: An Author Talk with Lawrence Buell Thursday, October 19 at 7pm Join leading Thoreau scholar Lawrence Buell as he shares his book, the first concise account of Thoreau’s life, thought, and impact in more than half a century. A look at the complexities and contradictions of Thoreau’s life and work as author, agitator, naturalist, and sage. $15 to attend in person at Thoreau Farm $10 to attend online “A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate”—Author Talk Thursday, November 16 at 7pm Learn how George P. McLean helped establish lasting legal protections for birds, including the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act, a landmark environmental protection legislation that is still in effect today. FREE to attend online $5 suggested donation toThe Write Connection  Make Thoreau Farm part of your story today! Every year, Thoreau Farm welcomes hundreds of people to farmhouse for tours, presents award-winning authors, and inspires writers, naturalists, and activists.  We hope you will help us continue to ensure that Thoreau’s birthplace will continue to serve as a place of pilgrimage, learning, and inspiration for generations to come.  Click Here to Make a Donation Copyright © Thoreau Farm, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Thoreau Faarm, P.O.Box 454, Concord, MA, 01742 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. www.thoreaufarm.org

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