Thoreau Birth House Tour


Item Number: 124

Time Left: CLOSED

Value: $300

Online Close: Mar 29, 2012 3:30 PM EDT

Bid History: 5 bids - Item Sold!

Description

The Tour -- to take place at a mutually agreed time -- will include the house and room where Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817. Joe Wheeler, a Concordian who is a descendant of John Wheeler, who built the birth house about 1730, will lead the tour. We will take in other Thoreau-related places in Concord and will include a lunch for two. Wheeler was the founding president of the Thoreau Farm Trust which is raising the funds for the restoration of the house. We expect the lunch and tour will take about four hours.

Special Instructions

See the Trust's website at http://www.ThoreauFarm.org for background, including two articles by Joe Wheeler and another by Special Collections Curator Leslie Wilson.

Donated by

Joseph C. Wheeler