Comments on: On Walden Pond

By: MV

MV — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:16:10 +0000

I would like to know how can I keep green pasta pesto

By: Sharon

Sharon — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:35:51 +0000

Walden Pond is a fantastic & Romantic place to be, nice, clam peaceful & very tranquil, it always puts us in the mood when were there, beautiful surroundings of a natural environment. B4 we used to struggle in our relationship until we started purcchasing viagra off the net from http://www.viagranow.me.uk, together with walden ponds and the products off the net, it mounts up to be a perfect destination.

By: Ted Blizzard

Ted Blizzard — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:33:59 +0000

I ride my bike there for lunch many times it is only 5 miles away from my work… and make my own simple lunch

By: CW

CW — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:50:16 +0000

according to Richard Smith who seems to be pretty much a expert on Thoreau and delivered a speach of fact &fiction, “Thoreau’s First Year at Wladen Pond” at the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering, on July 14, 2007 and I insert from his artical-
“[42] Yes, Thoreau did enjoy meals at the homes of his family and friends. Non-Thoreauvians like to point this out, as if Henry was somehow living a lie by eating out with his friends. He mentions these arrangements in the book, that his dining out was something he had “always done” and would, no doubt, continue to do in the future. He didn’t view this as hypocritical. Why would he? But, somehow over the years, this dining out with friends has become “raiding the family cookie jar” or, the ever-popular “bounding through the fields every time the Emersons’ dinner bell would ring.”

By: maria (farm country kitchen)

maria (farm country kitchen) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:27:07 +0000

Any Thoreau experts out there who know the truth?

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:10:48 +0000

I need to go back and read the book….but I do not remember any mention of having lunch w/his mother. He does document his days in quite a detailed manner. To my recollection…there was no mention of lunch w/mother. As a matter of fact, I thought he was estranged from his family and friends d/t what was considered quite eccentric behavior. I’m not sure anyone should assume that this is an historic fact based on one statement overheard while eavesdropping on a conversation.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:11:39 +0000

why do you feel Walden Ponds is haunted? What are you basing your opinion from?

Just curious…….

By: MC

MC — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:10:20 +0000

I’ve been to Walden Ponds many times…..the place is haunted. It makes the hair on my neck stand up evertime i sit on the stone wall and look out across the pond.

By: cw

cw — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:54:23 +0000

ahhh just so many a man.. all about the independence, all about the solitude, all about the tranquility but they owe it all to the woman who makes it all possible. Not such a loaner, not such an independent person- he was camping in someone else’s backyard. Though I am glad that Walden Pond – thanks to our romanticism of what Thoreau concocted in his own imagination led to the restoration of a beautiful pond.
I, however, can say that I lived in a two room building that we built ourselves on land we own with no running water, no kitchen, no constant electricity ( we used a generator to heat up the building in the winter or cool it down in the summer for a few hours till we were able to sleep ( then let it run itself off) for three years. It was wonderful to hear owls, and chuck-wills-widows most nights in the spring and summer and I still miss sleeping with the windows open. Made my own lunch.

By: Jean Nick

Jean Nick — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:42:55 +0000

LOL. Next time my home-from-college and reverted-to-helpless kids ask me what’s for dinner when I get home from a long day at work I’ll get another chuckle out of this