Richard Judd: “Was Henry a Hippie? Locating Thoreau in a Changing Modern World”
Soderberg Lecture Hall, Jenness Hall University of MaineDescription: In the 1960s, Henry David Thoreau became an symbol of American dissent: a Walden Pond drop-out, an anti-war anarchist, a theorist of civil disobedience, and even a drug-user. Dr. Judd will describe this unprecedented notoriety as an episode in Thoreau’s rise from obscurity in 1862 to near universal recognition a century later. The intense […]