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Henry Thoreau and the Estabrook Country:
A Historic and Personal Landscape
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1. Introduction–"We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe" . . 74
2. Thoreau’s early years in Estabrook Country . . 76
. . Poem "The Lonely Road" by Ellery Channing . . 80
3. Perambulation of the Bounds . . 82
4. The Habitats of Estabrook Country . . 86
5. Emerson’s "savage fertile houseless land" . . 88
6. The Solitary Observer: "There I go searchingº" . . 92
7. "A man must attend to Nature closely" . . 97
8. Man and Nature in Productive Harmony? . . 102
9. Oaks and Bittersweet Acorns–Wild Fruits to Feed the Imagination . . 109 . .
10. Conclusion: "All nature rejoices with one joy" . . 112
Notes . . . . 114-148
These endnotes contain much of interest. They include a discussion of the place-name Estabrook (in endnote 2); Harvard University’s nature reserve and Estabrook’s conservation history (n.3 and 4); colonial history and Bullock’s wigwam (n.8); the old Estabrook road (n.10); father John Thoreau’s saw mill (n.14); Punkatasset Hill and the minutemen of the Revolution (n.15-18, 26); Native Americans (n.19); the old Estabrook cellar hole (n.28); the lime kiln and quarries, and the stone circles (n.31); Two Rod Road (n.32); Carlisle’s almost-meetinghouse in Estabrook Woods (n.33); the mort stones (n.35); Kibbe’s own declaration of independence (n.37); the Paul Adams cellar and the old corn hills (n.45); Bateman’s Pond and nature—in—Estabrook (n.46); an Estabrook farmer’s diary (n.50); Raymond Emerson and Mary Sherwood (n.58); Minot Pratt, his elm, and his spring (n.60); William Brewster of October Farm (n.70); Asa Gray and his spring (n.84); and the fate of Thoreau’s Walden cabin-house in Estabrook Woods (n.95).
Index . . (end)
Illustrations
1. Barefooted Brooks Clark, by N. C. Wyeth . . 72
2. Map by Herbert C. Gleason . . 77
3. Ancient Black Oak and Hosmer on Ebby Hubbard’s Hill, by Gleason . . 83
4. The Estabrook cellar hole and the stone circles, by Janet Buerger . . 90
5. Stump (or Mink) Pond, by Ann Chapman . . 98
6. Dam for John Thoreau’s sawmill, by Gleason . . 101
7. Distant view of Ball’s Hill from Punkatasset, by Gleason . . 106
8. The old Carlisle road, or the Estabrook road trail, by Chapman . . 113
9. The lime kiln and the lime quarries, by Gleason . . 127
10. The Old Paul Adams Place, by Joseph Chandler Melvin . . 134
11. Asa Gray’s Spring, also called the Minot Pratt Spring, by James and Pat Hinds . . 134