Book Group

Second Wednesday of the Month
6:30-7:30 PM

Everyone Welcome!

For more information, contact Suzy Colt

Pick up a copy of December's book, The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau.

On December 11, 2024, the public book group will meet to talk about The Maine Woods, by Henry D.
Thoreau. Books are available to borrow at the library.

Thoreau traveled to the backwoods of Maine in 1846, 1853, and 1857. He climbed mountains, paddled a
canoe by midnight, and dined on cedar beer, hemlock tea, and moose tips. Taking notes constantly,
Thoreau was just as likely to turn his observant eye to the habits and languages of the Abenaki Indians or
the arduous life of the logger as he was to the workings of nature.

The Maine Woods, published in 1864, is a personal story of exterior and interior discoveries in a natural
setting--all conveyed in taut, masterly prose. Thoreau's evocative renderings of the life of the primitive
forest--its mountains, waterways, fauna, flora, and inhabitants--are timeless and valuable on their own.
But his impassioned protest against the despoilment of nature in the name of commerce and sport,
which even by the 1850s threatened to deprive Americans of the tonic of wildness, makes The Maine Woods an especially vital book for our own time.