someone once said you should go to hogwarts after you read harry potterbut hogwarts is not a real place . this was. >>. >> designated a national historic landmark in 1962, walden pond is considered the birthplace of the conservation movement. >> for two years writer henry david thoreau lived on his chores inspiring walden. next, concorde museum curator david wood describes thoreau's reasons for living at the pond and his experience there. >>. >>. >> readers of walden when they first come to the pond are a little puzzled, maybe a little disappointed because when you read walden , you really are expecting to be just amazed at the landscape. the fact that thoreau could be every day staggered by a landscape as humble as this. that takes a little getting used to so it was just a little pond. and now it's an icon of american literary history. henry david thoreau first came out here as a little boy and he remembered that excursionlong after but he came here with his family , actually to gather sand for his father's sandpaper manufacturing enterprise and but he came here to live. it was actuall

someone once said you should go to hogwarts after you read harry potterbut hogwarts is not a real place . this was. >>. >> designated a national historic landmark in 1962, walden pond is considered the birthplace of the conservation movement. >> for two years writer henry david thoreau lived on his chores inspiring walden. next, concorde museum curator david wood describes thoreau's reasons for living at the pond and his experience there. >>. >>