Tag: The Shot Heard Round the World

• Into the woods

  14 May 2026 We went to the woods last April, specifically Walden Pond, because we wished to revisit what it meant to Thoreau and what it might mean to us now.   Katherine, one of our core Madbury Library Book Club quartet, had last November gifted us with illustrated copies of Autumnal Tints, Henry David Thoreau’s…

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  May 14, 2026

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  Concord MA, Henry David Thoreau, King Charles, LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST, Michael Jochum, Minute Men, nature, North Bridge, Old Manse, Pope Leo, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Shot Heard Round the World, Walden Pond

• April 2025

  3 May 2025 April may not be the cruelest month, but this one certainly has been crowded with incident.  My neighbor Leo turned 7 on the 5th, David Letterman 78 on the 12th; my dad George would have been 103 on the 22nd, also my parents’ 78th anniversary.  And some would reckon the U.S. turned…

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  May 3, 2025

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  Amici Music, Carey Cottage, Evgeny Kissin, Handel & Haydn Society, John Cariani, New Castle Congregational Church, Peter Sagal, Portland Stage, St. John’s Episcopal Church Portsmouth NH, The Shot Heard Round the World, Twelfth Night