Ken Lizotte
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 27 Feb
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But it wasn't.
It was just one of many things that he did that was remarkable and a contribution.
I have to tell you that before I got involved with the Thoreau Birthplace House, and particularly before I began my research for this book, I didn't know that much about him.
I grew up 20 miles from here to Massachusetts, small city called Marlboro.
And we never came over to Concord except to go to Walden Pond once a crazy beach afternoon.
We're all on school buses and just going wild.
But as far as really understanding who he was, didn't really understand it.
So one of my inspirations, one of my moments of inspiration for this book had to do with that pencil.
Because what happened was I had, I had, there's an auction every year for the thorough society puts on for all kinds of artifacts and things, various books and recordings and things like that.
But I had to put out a winning bid for something.
I can't remember what it was, but I had to go over to the Walden Woods, basically artifact shelter.
And where they have a lot of things that are up behind glass and they all have to do with Henry.
And the guy who was the caretaker of it said to me, I was looking at this pencil behind a glass.
And he said, you know what that is?
And he told me the story.
And I was like stunned.
I had lived in Concord for a number of years at that point.
I still didn't know that.
So that there was something in there that clicked in me then that
That eventually led to this book because it just was leaping out at me that he did that.
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