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"The Seasons in Estabrook Country:
An Anthology About the Cycle of the Year and This Landscape" (Lincoln, Mass. 1999) 110 pp.

This is an anthology of writings by Henry Thoreau and fifty others about the cycle of the year in this historic landscape, which is now known as Estabrook Woods. The author-editor is Stephen F. Ells. The 1200-acre Estabrook Country was one of Thoreau's "great wild tracts" in Concord and Carlisle. Remarkably, much remains wild. The anthology celebrates this place by gathering the words of fifty people who over three and a half centuries have written or spoken about life here. Some tell of the passage of the seasons; some write of the impact of the place on them; some tell about what this place has meant to them; and some tell how this landscape (and by extension potentially any landscape) can connect to science and to spirit.

Seventy of the selections are generous quotes from Thoreau's journal. He found here both natural diversity and a spiritual metaphor, the old Carlisle road (earlier a Minute Man path and still a dirt road).

The other hundred selections include those by a settler; a Minute Man; a British officer at the North Bridge; schoolchildren; farmers; a philosopher; housewives; a ne'er-do-well; botanists and teachers; an evolutionist; authors; naturalists; and others who have written about this tract over 350 years.

Extensive notes describe Thoreau's philosophy; the area's natural, social, and conservation history; and the current, unfortunate development plans of the Middlesex School. 110 pages, 40 pictures and maps, walking guide, bibliography, and indices.

[If you also wish to download this, here is information: To simplify downloading, the entire document consists of this index page and the single level of subordinate pages shown below. There are no deeper or outside links. For further information on Estabrook Woods-Estabrook Country-Easterbrooks Country, see my website: <http://home.earthlink.net/~steveells> or write <sfe@post.harvard.edu>.]

  1. Title page and Writers Included
     
  2. List of Substantive Endnotes (hyperlinked)
     
  3. List of Photographs, Drawings, and Maps
     
  4. Introduction (with endnotes 1-7)
     
  5. Winter (with footnotes and with endnotes 8-26)
     
  6. Spring (with footnotes and with endnotes 27-47)
      
  7. Summer (with footnotes and with endnotes 48-64)
     
  8. Autumn (part 1 of 2, with footnote and with endnotes 65-94)
     
  9. Autumn (part 2 of 2, with footnotes and with endnotes 95-104)
     
  10. On-coming Winter (with notes)
      
  11. Bibliography
     
  12. Index
     

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