Henry Thoreau's beautiful essay “Walking” describes the art of walking as “Holy-Landing,” a crusade undertaken to reclaim the paradise of our beginnings. “We should go forth on the shortest walk,” he says, “in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return.” America once stood for a paradise regained of boundless forest and stream: a mythic landscape preserved from the beginnings of time. In this narrated woodland walk through the majestic Bassett Woods at Colonial Williamsburg, we seek the sources of American wisdom in the ancient forests that shaped the early nation.
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Earlier Event: October 28
The Thoreau Prize Honoring Terry Tempest Williams
Later Event: April 18
The City of God: A Philosophical Garden Tour