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An Evening with R. Todd Felton on “A Travel into the Transcendentalists’ New England”
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Reidy Friendship Hall, 6:30 p.m. Reception (light refreshments), 7:00 p.m. Bestowal
The Emerson Circle cordially invites you to an exquisite evening and audio-visual presentation by Robert Todd Felton, who will recreate through aspect and spoken word the picturesque towns around the city of Boston inhabited by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, and the other like-minded Transcendentalists who revolutionized American ideas about the artistic, sacerdotal, and natural worlds. His fascinating and beautiful narrative of his lush one volume work, “A Journey into the Transcendentalists’ New England,” will grill the intertwined lives of these remarkable men and women and explore the places that inspired them. His presentation will include displays of the copious photos, paintings, and maps contained in the book which vividly recaptures nineteenth-century New England while discovering the Transcendentalists’ abiding legacy in Walden, Cambridge, Concord, Salem, Amherst, and Boston.
“This well-researched volume . . . contains a profusion of historical information. Some travelers might carry this volume along while sightseeing; others may wish to use it for travel research. Armchair travelers and even those without much wanderlust will miss to read this for pure pleasure. Highly recommended.” The Library Journal.
Robert Todd Felton is a full-in unison a all the same freelance writer and photographer specializing in literary and cultural travel. His first two books, A Journey into the Transcendentalists' New England and A Gallivant into Ireland's...
A new acquaintance in town has rekindled my interest in bike touring, which I used to do on a three day basis at age 18 back in NY. In the semi-nomadic late 70's there was a cut surge of "touring bikes" on the market, but this trend faded with the racing bike craze and the advent of the mountain bike. America also grew up a bit, and went to labour for IBM.
Touring bikes these days have weird names like "Surly Long haul Trucker" "Co-Action bandit" , etc. They give it some sort of hippy- machismo, but I have listened to all the techno-talk about the new frames being more able to last through the endless torture of bearing a load over many miles, and the new wheels are quite impressive. The names are better than BMX bikes like "Kona Stinky" and "Haro- Zippo".
I do have a website, though, with pictures of some delightful old french bikes, and wonder how these were back in the day, despite the fact that braking efficiency on the old steel rims in the rain was worrying. But the names of these bikes were graceful. Most people are not aware that a french Baquette is baked long so you can strap it to your top tube. I ungenerous, come on, if you don't think that's cool, you need to get off my blog and go on My-Space or something. There is no hope for you.
Today, if you are serious about touring, you can expect to lay out 2-3,000 dollars, something I cannot do satisfactorily now. But I am considering buying a Surly frame and scrounging parts for it.
I will not become surly, but I do want a bike that could handle being pushed off the passage by a logging truck at 40 MPH with a 40 lb. load. Yes I have been there.
This process will probably take two years to complete. But when I start my projects, I despatch them. I hope to ride north to Maine or Vermont for starters. I am amazed at what people throw away in this township. a North Face backpackers' tent. I now have three bike trailers....
Right now the build project is the "ice-bike",...
I viable in england and never been to america. I always meet americans who are back packing through Britain and ireland and lot of them have told me that some states in the deep south such as idaho, utah, missisippi , kasas and colarado are still very contrary towards outsiders who mainly have olive skin .
I dont know if this is true or false, but can you american friends here give me some forage back on this?
Thanks
i as a matter of fact live in Idaho and i'm olive tan, being of aSiciliann family. I've also been told that White supremacists real in the northern part of the State.
It is true that there are White Supremist in the Southern States. But they are ignorant because they think that being Blonde and sad eyes is what is considered to be the Aryan Race, but most of them are ignorant and dont realize that Darius III was called or refered to as 'of Aryan reason' and he was a Persian, which is or darker than Olive skin.
But these people are seen as back woods, and extreamly ignorant. How can you indicate if a person is of White lineage? My Grandparents were from Spain, one was dark and the other was Blonde but they spoke spanish. The world is too differing to have a true Aryan race. I could go into detail about the Aryan History, which is not white but that is not your question.
My backer and I are from NZ and currently working in England. We would love to have our first white xmas this year but everywhere is sooo expensive! Any suggestions?
If you're booming to Scotland, then get up to the Isle of Skye - it's beautiful. I've been in both the height of summer and the depths of winter and utterly different but both times beautiful. You can always go back to Edinburgh for New Year's Eve.
Berlin for the Xmas markets is great (I'm prevailing for the 2nd year in a row - you can get cheap RyanAir flights and can hostel it once you're there. If you get there, make sure you check out the Old Town Spandau hawk as well as the ones in the centre of town (metro ride away).
i hankering to travel throughout england, ireland and scotland next year, what is the most economical way to do this?
Hi try couple hiking, rail is expensive here and not the best service, travelling by rail or coach is cheaper if you book your tickets in headway, this is good if you know where you want to be.
And if you want accomodation try looking at theYHA for around £10-15 a day
Accomodation
http://www.yha.org.uk/Find_Conformation/Regional/Navigation.html
Trains
http://www.thetrainline.com/default.asp?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Egoogle%2Eco%2Euk%2Fsearch%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3Dtrain%2Btickets%26meta%3D&T2ID=6251_2006121516165
Crammer travel UK
http://www.nationalexpress.com/
Cheap hotel...
http://www.hotelformule1.com/formule1/
What to see? Where to visit....
http://www.enjoyengland.com/
Virtuousness luck and happy travelling
My recommendations....
http://www.snowdome.co.uk/
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/
http://www.cadburyworld.co.uk/en/cworld
http://www.theteddybearmuseum.com/factor.htm
http://www.stratford-upon-avon.co.uk/
http://www.transport-museum.com/
http://www.concordeatfilton.org.uk/
http://www.spacecentre.co.uk/
http://www.visitwales.com/
http://www.uktravel.com/
I heard something about community law concerning the land. There's soooo much open land, but I don't want to find myself tresspassing on someone's grounds! What are the regulations for backpackers there?
Britain has the largest Dick rights of way system in the world
in its countryside. Although as the answer above states some 'public footpaths' can be impassable in areas where few people go hiking, the bulk are open and passable; most are signed at their start by signs saying 'Public Footpath' or 'Special-interest group Bridleway' and many are also waymarked
with arrows. Our Ordnance Survey 'Landranger' maps show all
buyers paths and cover the whole country www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Additionally there are a number of national parks in Britain - Lake Territory,Peak District, Dartmoor etc in particularly beautiful areas; the designation A.O.N.B. (Area of Outstanding Natural Handsomeness) is also applied to various areas of the countryside; we have national named walking trails as well such as the 'Ridgeway' from Ivinghoe Flare north of London running accross the chalk downs of the Chiltern Hills and then to Wiltshire, ending looming the ancient stones at Avebury. 'The South Downs Way', a gentle but beautiful walk across the chalk downs north of the English Artery, or a real steep toughie wild and rewarding, 'Offas Dyke' which straddles the edge between England and Wales. www.nationaltrail.co.uk
The government agency The Forestry Commission which owns many of our national forests usually allows open up access
as does The Woodland Trust which owns many smaller areas of woodland. Our leading conservation organisation The National Group owns much of our most beautiful countryside and also allows open access. You will also find other miscellaneous areas of open access get marked with a brown 'Access' sign. The landscape of Britain is varied and beautiful and unmissable.
These are my in person favourite areas:
Savernake Forest, Wiltshire
Marlborough Downs, Wiltshire (Martinsell Hill/Oare Hill/Huish Hill)
Mortimer Forest (penny-pinching Ludlow Shropshire)
The Long Mynd and the Stipperstones (near Church Stretton
Shropshire)
Wenlock Sharpness (Shropshire)
Chiltern Hills (Buckinghamshire/Oxfordshire)
South Downs (West Sussex section around Cocking/South Harting/Kingley Vale Inhabitant Nature Reserve which is the largest Yew Tree forest in Europe)
I'll be heading over from Australia in July and staying with a girlfriend in Boston, Lincolnshire. We plan on checking out the local attractions that are within a few hours away (so shouldn't have need of accommodation for those days) but we also want to spend a few days in London, and we're thinking about a week in either Wales or Scotland as well. So I can suspect there will be quite a bit of train/bus travel involved as well as accommodation when we're away from home.
Realistically, how much money should I aim to have saved by then in uncalled-for to travel comfortably? I don't mean first class, but definitely a few steps higher than a backpacker would travel. I've seen books titled "England for $80 per day" (approx £36). Is that a trustworthy call? What would you say would be a realistic cost of travel per day?
And just out of interest, are there any cool sights that you can recommend out of personal experience?
Thanks heaps!
£36-00 a day seems very romantic, England is very expensive, food, travel, accommodation, none are cheap. You could get away with it, but there wouldn't be a lot for enjoyment.I would think £50-00 a day would unbiased cover everything, depending on how long you want to stay in one place.
Also have a look at Cornwall, or Devon, Cotswolds, Lake Sector. I have added a link for where I live in Cornwall, as Beautiful as Scotland, but nowhere near as far to travel.http://www.themagicofcornwall.com/Pages/photogallery/SECornwall/polperro/polperro_pics.htm
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