Walden the book & Concord the Town
77 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHave you read Walden yet? Hear it in its actual context and feel what it’s like to explore Concord, Massachusetts. Here are a bunch of audio visits to different spots to the historic town, famous for the American Revolution as well as the writings of the American Literary Revolution-Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne and famous visitors, including Mark Twain. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support
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13. Ch2P1: Where I Lived & What I Lived For (To be awake is to be alive!)
May 23, 2021 18:02 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBHenry buys every farm in Concord (in his mind) before he settles on his spot at Walden. Who needs open windows when you have a half-finished hut? You have protection from the rain but you also have fresh air! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support
Chapter 2: Part 1 Where I Lived & What I Lived For (To be awake is to be alive!)
May 23, 2021 18:02 - 54 minutes - 50.8 MBHenry buys every farm in Concord (in his mind) before he settles on his spot at Walden. Who needs open windows when you have a half-finished hut? You have protection from the rain but you also have fresh air! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tam-ro/support
Economy 12: Furniture & Philanthropy
May 16, 2021 18:01 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBHenry talks about furniture (who needs it anyways?) and the cynical side of philanthropy. Also, starting in 2021, May 6 is now an annual Celebration of Life at Walden Pond, to mark Thoreau’s death (in 1862) and anyone else you may want to honor. This podcaster honored her beloved mother. It is a place of peace, standing alone or with the book. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tam-...
12. Ch1P12 Economy: Furniture & Philanthropy
May 16, 2021 18:01 - 58 minutes - 54.3 MBHenry talks about furniture (who needs it anyways?) and the cynical side of philanthropy. Also, starting in 2021, May 6 is now an annual Celebration of Life at Walden Pond, to mark Thoreau’s death (in 1862) and anyone else you may want to honor. This podcaster honored her beloved mother. It is a place of peace, standing alone or with the book. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t...
Economy 11: The Food Budget!
April 13, 2021 13:37 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBHenry itemizes his farming life and food. He offers his bread making recipe (Who needs yeast? Who needs salt?) And the Woodchuck! He also mentions Thebes, which has a new relevance now for me. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tam-ro/support
11.Ch1P11 Economy: The Food Budget!
April 13, 2021 13:37 - 44 minutes - 41.5 MBHenry itemizes his farming life and food. He offers his bread making recipe (Who needs yeast? Who needs salt?) And the Woodchuck! He also mentions Thebes, which has a new relevance now for me. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support
10.Ch1P10 Economy: Maine & Texas have nothing to say to each other
February 25, 2021 04:06 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBHenry talks about the proper way to get an education, economics of renting vs building, the folly of the railroad and Harriet Martineau! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support
Economy 10 Maine & Texas have nothing to say to each other
February 25, 2021 04:06 - 44 minutes - 41.3 MBHenry talks about the proper way to get an education, economics of renting vs building, the folly of the railroad and Harriet Martineau! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tam-ro/support
9.Ch1P9 Economy: Henry building cabin +Colonial Inn Info
February 22, 2021 19:12 - 1 hour - 66.6 MBHere we get down to the nuts & bolts of Henry’s carpentry practice. A guidebook & philosophy all in one. Plus info about visiting Concord & how the Colonial Inn is so central to the good stuff. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support
Economy 9 Henry building cabin +Colonial Inn Info
February 22, 2021 19:12 - 1 hour - 69 MBHere we get down to the nuts & bolts of Henry’s carpentry practice. A guidebook & philosophy all in one. Plus info about visiting Concord & how the Colonial Inn is so central to the good stuff. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tam-ro/support
8.Ch1P8 Economy: Rather sit by myself on a pumpkin than crowded on a velvet cushion
February 11, 2021 20:23 - 55 minutes - 51.6 MBPlight of farmers, are we all digging our our graves? Why bother with gewgaws? Commentary includes notes from commons.digitalthoreau.org hosted by the Walden Woods project. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support
Economy 8 “Rather sit by myself on a pumpkin than crowded on a velvet cushion”
February 11, 2021 20:23 - 58 minutes - 54.1 MBPlight of farmers, are we all digging our our graves? Why bother with gewgaws? Commentary includes notes from commons.digitalthoreau.org hosted by the Walden Woods project. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tam-ro/support
Econ Part 7: Shelter: Cost of a thing is the amount of life you exchange for it
January 27, 2021 02:29 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBHenry asks what kind of shelter does a person need? Penobscot or Laplander or Yankee, a simple wooden box, a wigwam or a palace? (Which do you think he’ll choose?) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tam-ro/support
7. Ch1P7 Economy: Shelter: Cost of a thing is the amount of life you exchange for it
January 27, 2021 02:29 - 29 minutes - 27.7 MBHenry asks what kind of shelter does a person need? Penobscot or Laplander or Yankee, a simple wooden box, a wigwam or a palace? (Which do you think he’ll choose?) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support
Economy Chapter Part 6:Clothing/Portuguese Reading
January 19, 2021 12:55 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBIn this sixth part of the Economy chapter, we finish the segment on Clothing. And as an experiment, I have a short bit of it read by a native Portuguese speaker. Imagine if we could get people from all over the world to read segments in their native languages? Walden has been translated enough, it’s totally possible. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tam-ro/support
6.Ch1P6 Economy: Clothing/Portuguese Reading
January 19, 2021 12:55 - 18 minutes - 17.5 MBIn this sixth part of the Economy chapter, we finish the segment on Clothing. And as an experiment, I have a short bit of it read by a native Portuguese speaker. Imagine if we could get people from all over the world to read segments in their native languages? Walden has been translated enough, it’s totally possible. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support
Indian Basket/Beware all enterprises that require new clothes!
January 13, 2021 15:27 - 50 minutes - 47.2 MBStarting with Thoreau and Native Americans, the Nipmuc people of Concord; continuing through 2 pages of the details and responsibilities of being in business. Also, clothes are there to keep us warm, no matter what your boss or society thinks! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tam-ro/support
5.Ch1P5 Economy: Indian Basket/Beware all enterprises that require new clothes!
January 13, 2021 15:27 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBStarting with Thoreau and Native Americans, the Nipmuc people of Concord; continuing through 2 pages of the details and responsibilities of being in business. Also, clothes are there to keep us warm, no matter what your boss or society thinks! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support
4. Ch1P4 Economy: A Hound, A Bay Horse & A Turtle-Dove
December 29, 2020 01:31 - 36 minutes - 34.1 MBIn this 4th section of Walden’s first chapter called Economy, Henry talks about how philosophers choose to be poor and offers his version of a resume. Includes jokes about “watering the plants” and a dig at his editor at The Dial, Margaret Fuller. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support
A Hound, A Bay Horse & A Turtle-Dove
December 29, 2020 01:31 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBIn this 4th section of Walden’s first chapter called Economy, Henry talks about how philosophers choose to be poor and offers his version of a resume. Includes jokes about “watering the plants” and a dig at his editor at The Dial, Margaret Fuller. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tam-ro/support
3.Ch1P3 Economy:Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
December 19, 2020 22:35 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBBasic necessities section, what do we REALLY NEED? And why are we so influenced by others to want anything beyond the basics? Food, shelter, empathy. “If I repent of anything it is very likely to be my good behavior” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support
“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”
December 19, 2020 22:35 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBBasic necessities section, what do we REALLY NEED? And why are we so influenced by others to want anything beyond the basics? Food, shelter, empathy. “If I repent of anything it is very likely to be my good behavior” --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tam-ro/support
Kill time w/out injuring eternity
December 16, 2020 18:50 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBIn this second section of Economy, Henry covers capitalism, debt, slavery (both actual and metaphorical), vegetarianism and why we shouldn’t listen to our elders. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tam-ro/support
2.Ch1P2 Economy: Kill time w/out injuring eternity
December 16, 2020 18:50 - 34 minutes - 32.2 MBIn this second section of Economy, Henry covers capitalism, debt, slavery (both actual and metaphorical), vegetarianism and why we shouldn’t listen to our elders. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support
1. Ch1P1 Economy Reading & Commentary, plus a visit to Monument Square in Concord Center!
December 12, 2020 11:12 - 56 minutes - 52 MBA reading of the first few pages of Walden, then a discussion of what Henry was talking about in his first few pages, and the strange townspeople he saw, weighed down by life. And then there is a visit to Monument Square in center of Concord. What’s with all those marble blocks in that patch of green? One of them is the jail site where Civil Disobedience was born. Yep, right near the parking lot for the hardware store. That's where Henry spent the night-in the middle of his stay at Walden, a...
Walden Ch1A reading & commentary, plus a visit to Monument Square in Concord Center!
December 12, 2020 11:12 - 56 minutes - 52 MBA reading of the first few pages of Walden, then a discussion of what Henry was talking about in his first few pages, and the strange townspeople he saw, weighed down by life. And then there is a visit to Monument Square in center of Concord. What’s with all those marble blocks in that patch of green? One of them is the jail site where Civil Disobedience was born. Yep, right near the parking lot for the hardware store. That's where Henry spent the night-in the middle of his stay at Walden, a...
Walden the book & Concord the Town (Trailer)
December 11, 2020 11:12 - 59 seconds - 947 KB--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tam-ro/support