Ken Lizotte
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 27 Feb
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But that's the deal with Henry David Thoreau.
But here's to answer your question.
The thing that I noticed as I spent 10 years as president of Thorough Farm, which is Henry's birthplace house, it was restored.
They were going to tear it down in Concord at one point.
And about 25 years ago, a small bunch of Concord citizens said, no, you can't tear that down.
Of all the famous writers and thought leaders, let's say, that came out of Concord,
In the mid 19th century, including for example, Louisa May Alcott and Ralph Waldo Emerson, none of them were born in Concord, but Henry was.
And these people got together and they did all kinds of things to get the town to agree to back up the South and then to raise some money for it and all those kinds of things.
But the thing about is that what you said about yourself in terms of your relationship to him, that this was more exciting than a lot of the topics because it meant something to you.
I've seen that in my work with being on the board of trustees again and again.
Get somebody to come in, like particularly a worker.
We had to have an inspector come in and look at our elevator, for example.
And he came in and he had to look at some violations and see if he confirmed them or not, according to the state of Massachusetts.
And he said, what is this house again now?
And we say, well, this is Henry David Thoreau's birthplace.
And he said, Henry David Thoreau?
I love that guy.
In high school, we read him and I've never forgot him.
And those kinds of uncovering people's relationship to him, nobody wears a badge that let us know this.
It's a subculture that's out there.
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