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Richard Higgins

Richard Higgins  is the author of Thoreau and the Language of Trees. A writer and editor, he lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

Thoreau's garret

A Transcendentalist at Work

Thoreau spent his last dozen years in this garret, making sense of what he could see from his windows

by Richard Higgins | Monday, December 02, 2019

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

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Plunging to Earth

by Robert Zaretsky

Still dreaming up ways to safely enjoy this year’s summer vacation? “Safe” may be a relative term here—but if you’re feeling brave, you could take up skydiving, as Robert Zaretsky once did. “As I fell,” he wrote in our Summer 2011 issue, “I blurted out—like so many others have, I later learned—‘Mommy!’”

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