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Thoreau's simple life at Walden

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Uploaded by on May 31, 2009

Henry David Thoreau sought the simple life in 1845 when he moved to the woods outside Boston to live on Walden Pond. He visit the remains of his home. Original story here: http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/thoreaus-simple-life-at-walden/

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  • @MotherLodeBeth That's a great point. We've definitely grown our average home size in the U.S. Though I think Thoreau was different from his peers who- like his good friend Ralph Waldo Emerson- were living in nearby Concord, MA in very large homes.

  • Actually a majority of people in his time lived in small places like this. Even in the 1800's in South Dakota (Little House on the Prarie) and the cabin here in the Sierras where Mark Twain lived in the 1800's, were the same size and style. Come west and you will still find small house society folks.

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