Thoreau Country: Location Note
This is a picture of Fairhaven Cliffs looking west across the Sudbury River. Conantum is on the far shore. Photo data: "Ledges" by Herbert W. Gleason (date not given, est. 1900). (From "Locusts and Wild Honey," Vol. IV, page 195, The Writings of John Burroughs. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1879, 1895, 1904, 1907.) Compare another Gleason image of adjacent countryside just to the south, overlapping with this image: "Sunset from the cliffs, Concord, Massachusetts [Jan. 29, 1918]" on page 16 of the Sierra Club's Thoreau Country.
See, for a sample of his many references to Fairhaven Hill, Thoreau's journals for Jan. 13, 1852 and Feb. 1, 1855.
"Path to Cliffs on Fair Haven Hill." May 22,1900. Photo by Herbert W.
Gleason.
From the archives of the Thoreau Society. Used by permission.
[Note by Steve Ells, February 11, 2002.
His Thoreau research page is at
<http://homepage.mac.com/sfe/henry/index.html>.