vote up to new hampshire and that's loosely the red that runs through a week on the concorde and merrimack which is the book that he wrote here. while he was here it's easy to imagine that thoreau was all alone and if you read the book you would think he's like halfway up the slopes of the mountain or something, that he was off at the end of the world somewhere. but he's not, he's connected to town, it's only a little over a mile away, especially if you take the railroad cut there, you are in town in no time and he had lots and lots of visitors while he was out here. so it's not that he was isolated but he had plenty of the solitude that he wanted as a thinker and a writer. >> the house he built, he held in the first chapter of walden was 10 my 15 feet. which is a fairly substantial space. about the size of most craftsmen's workshops in that period. you can get a lot done and by 15 feet and it was sufficient for thoreau. he not immediately but he soon planted a field of beans and tried to get by in part on them. but you know, for the rest of his living it was a supply that he would get fro

walden was more successful than a week on the concord in merrimack the deal that thoreau made with his publisher for a week which was the book he came to waldn to write, was that if it didn't sell thoreau would pay for the publication so ended up being responsible for the publication, and -- but walden sold better than that. it only went through one edition during thoreau, but it did sell much better than a week. one of the things thoreau is careful to point out in the text of walden is he doesn't really mean for anybody to imitate his experiment and he talks about it as an experiment. rather, i think, he wanted his readers to first have the sort of odd response to the remarkable fact of man and nature is the way thoreau put it. if readers take that away that's good enough for him festival they thought about the relationship between what they do to get a living and what their life consists of then i think he would have counted that as success. you can watch this and other programs on the history of communities across the country at cd.c. cpan..org. ***** at c-span.org/cities tour. this

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