School Named for Thoreau

Our school is named after Henry David Thoreau. The property on whichthe school is located is Camp Thoreau, a childrens summer camp. It isalso our year round home. What is more, the property is an old familyfarm which we try to keep in production.

Henry David Thoreau taught school himself for a few years. I would liketo think that he might have approved of some of the things that we havedone here, although I know he would disapprove of the folly of owninga property of this size. Thoreau believed that owning a farm is a type ofslavery.

Thoreau left behind somegood advice for writers ofbooks:The writer, he said does not make booksout of books,but he has beenthere in person.Hence this record of the four years in which I directed the Thoreau School.