Walden Pond, Concord, Mass.

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Shaker Song
Welcome to Walden Pond, the site Henry David Thoreau’s visionary retreat from 1845-1847. If you listen carefully, you can hear the fresh breeze coming off the water through the trees, waves on the shore, passersby on the pathway…a plane overhead.

There was a time in the United States when individuals were imprisoned for there beliefs - some would suggest that this hasn’t changed - and this Shaker Song, Stone Prison, written in the area around the same time as Thoreau comtemplated this very pond and its surrounding woods, recalls how Mother Ann was persecuted in both England and the U.S. Turbulent times back then, and, unfortunately, perhaps not so different from the world we live in today!


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