An Anthology about the Cycle of the Year and this Wild Tract

from 1653 to 1999

Authors

Principal Author: Henry Thoreau (seventy passages)

And one hundred passages about the Estabrook Woods from the following:

In the 1600s,

Simon Willard, Wm. Wood,

& Samuel Bass, appraisers

In the 1700s,

Thaddeus Blood, minute man

Samuel Kibbe, farmer

Capt. Walter Laurie, British officer

Louisa May Alcott, author

William Brewster, naturalist

Ellery Channing, poet

Brooks and Cyrus Clark

Daniel B. Clark, Jr, farmer

George William Curtis, young man of letters

Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher

Edward Emerson, Waldo’s son

Ellen Emerson, Waldo’s daughter

Alfred W. Hosmer, grocer-botanist

George Melvin, trapper

Minot and Maria Pratt, farmer and wife

Daniel Ricketson, Thoreau visitor

Henry Thoreau, transcendentalist

Raymond Adams, educator

Peter Arnold, biology teacher

Allie Bemis Bueti, schoolgirl

Thomas Blanding, scholar

J. Walter Brain, Thoreauvian

Sarah Chapin, naturalist

Gladys Clark, teacher

Robert E. Cook, botanist

Mary R. Fenn, Concordian

Edward Howe Forbush, ornithologist

Herbert W. Gleason, photographer

Marilyn and Ken Harte, neighbors

Reginald Heber Howe, educator

Ernst Mayr, evolutionary biologist

Middlesex School alumni/ae

John Hanson Mitchell, author

Marjorie W. Rines, birder

Christopher Roof, poet

Neil Rudenstine, President of Harvard

Mary Sherwood, Walden’s protector

Lawrence "Monk" Terry, Middlesex School headmaster

Edward O. Wilson, naturalist