Ken Lizotte
speaker
336 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 27 Feb
Ken Lizotte’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But you can see it.
If you're walking around Walden Pond, you can see a train going by or you can hear it or whatever.
And so he builds this cabin and there is no train tracks.
And while he's there, the tracks are starting to be put in.
And then ultimately a train started going by.
And he would watch the trains going by, and he would see the people looking out the window, the passenger cars, and he would say, why do we need trains to bring people from Concord to Boston and to work 10 hours a day and be exhausted and come back?
Why can't they just work here?
Or why do they have to do that kind of work at all?
So the resistance to like the whole point of having trains and that kind of technology was high on his list of what he didn't admire.
But as time went by,
Because he used to go into Boston and roam around and go to museums or the Boston Athenaeum and study and just admire the way the parks were in Boston and all of that.
One day he tried taking a train trip into Boston rather than a four-hour stagecoach that were walking.
A lot of what he did and a lot of what people did in those days was just walk to a place.
It could be like some place that took a day to walk.
Perhaps that was why they were so skinny.
Maybe.
Yeah, maybe.
How much food could they carry right then?
There were no Arby's or Burger Kings on the way.
But anyway, he got on the train and he went in and then he was able to take his pleasurable saunter around Boston.
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