Peter Alden will lead a guided tour and provide transportation to Thoreau sites. He will compare Thoreau's natural world to what it is today.

Peter writes: On Sept 1 I took a wonderful couple from Iowa out for a guided tour of Thoreau sites for the Thoreau Society auction of a previous year. I picked them up at their hotel in Boston at 9 am, showed them Harvard, the Longfellow House, Mitt Romney's House, the cabin replica, walked completely around the pond, had lunch of Lobster Bisque and Salmon sandwiches (which they provided) in my back yard overlooking a river Thoreau canoed, then photo stops of the First Parish, Emerson House, Wayside, the Thoreau Birth House, Author's Ridge and graves, The Great Meadows NWR tower, and walked the Old North Bridge circuit, had tea at the Mean Streets Cafe in Concord Center and dropped them at the RR station for a train ride back to the city at 3:30 pm.

Good for 2 adults and 1-2 kids on date of their choosing For Bio see Peter's website peteraldenwildlife.com.

Peter Alden is a Concord naturalist who is main author of 15 nature books, including the National Audubon Society Field Guide to New England. He initiated the world's first Biodiversity Day with Harvard's Dr Edward O. Wilson and 100 specialists. They found close to 2,000 species of fungi, flora and fauna in one day around Concord on July 4, 1998. He co-runs the nation's largest Christmas bird count here and has also led birding and ecotourism tours & cruises to over 100 countries.