In the Community

Dear Friend:

In conjunction with the production of the Thoreau DVD “Life With Principle” in the late spring, the Thoreau Society is offering public programs in communities across the United States. Centered on the DVD, discussion-based workshops will draw on the educational curriculum which accompanies the film portion. They will involve local librarians and teachers to facilitate conversations and provide context.

As you know, once a year we convene in Concord for the Annual Gathering of the Thoreau Society. But the rest of the year, our visibility, membership development, and educational outreach – our impact – depends on our network of geographically-dispersed members leading activities with support from the staff in the Concord office.

We are writing to you to invite you to be one of the “first fifty” members, a core group of Thoreauvians willing to a.) pilot informal programs for 20-50 people in their home communities and b.) mentor other members who will be organizing similar programs in their own home towns.

The programs will follow a general template which is simple and replicable wherever our members live. We will provide you with a program kit, which is being developed now, and look forward to working with you over the coming months. It is important to the future of the Thoreau Society to begin with people like you who can represent the Society in this significant national initiative.

If you are interested in being part of this project, please copy what is below into an e-mail and send it to us at your earliest convenience, and we will be in touch with you shortly. We would like to introduce our first programs by June and have several dozen going on in different parts of the country throughout the summer and fall.

We hope you will join us in this new project to carry out our mission to “honor Henry David Thoreau by stimulating interest in and fostering education about his life, works, and philosophy and his place in his world and ours…”

Cordially,

Jayne Gordon Melvyn Hopper
Thoreau Society Director DVD Producer

Name: E-mail: Phone:
Mailing address:
Community where the program would take place:
Preferred month in 2005:

Are you interested in leading a DVD-based program in
your area or in purchasing the "Life with Principle" DVD?

Contact info@thoreausociety.org for more information.