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4:00 p.m.
Concord, MA
Concord Museum
The Concord Museum and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association
present
Christopher Lydon on Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Global
Consciousness: A Culture Trying to Happen

$15, by reservation (978) 369-9763
Space is limited,
reserve as
early as possible
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7:30-9:00 O Cornerstones of Unitarianism: The Lasting Legacy of Emerson’s Divinity School Address Norwell-First Parish Unitarian Church Reverend Victoria Weinstein
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May 9-11th
Bucks County PA
Barbara Solowey
 hosts an
Emerson Weekend
in historic
Washington Crossing,
Bucks County PA
Come to
Into the Woods
with Ralph Waldo Emerson
for reservations,
call 1-800-574-1974
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TS 7:30pm
Concord, MA
Concord-Museum
The Musketaquid Program: Emerson's Direct Legacy
Dillon Bustin, Ex. Dir., Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts.
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10:07AM to10:17 AM
WAMC Radio
Richard Geldard will join Susan Arbetter and Joe
Donahue on the Roundtable to talk about Emerson and the Bicentennial.
 WAMC Radio can be
heard online or on FM 90.3 or 90.9 in the Kingston/Gt. Barrington area
www.wamc.org

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TBA
ALA
14th Annual Conference
-Cambridge, MA--Hyatt Regency Hotel
for more information visit: americanliterature.org  --see "Call for Papers" on Page 5.
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TBA
ALA
14th Annual Conference
-Cambridge, MA--Hyatt Regency Hotel
for more information visit: americanliterature.org  --see "Call for Papers" on Page 5.
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12:00pm to 3:00pm
Thoreau House Walden Pond State Reservation, MA
Living History Event
"Emerson's Birthday, 1847"
   In celebration of the 200th Birthday of Ralph Waldo Emerson, this Living History event will take you back to the Concord of 1847 where you will meet some of Mr. Emerson's contemporaries.  Join Henry Thoreau at his Walden Pond home (on Mr. Emerson's land) and share conversation with him about Emerson's influence on his life  and on 19th Century Concord.  Joining Mr. Thoreau will be other "Living History" notables, including Anna, Louisa May and Lizzie Alcott, Emerson's Aunt Mary Moody Emerson, and The Emerson's oldest daughter, Ellen. Meet at the Thoreau House Replica, Walden Pond State Reservation.  12 noon - 3p.m.     Free.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson born
May 25, 1803

8:00AM - 1:00PM
14th Annual Conference
Cambridge, MA
Hyatt Regency Hotel
for more information visit: americanliterature.org  --see "Call for Papers" on Page 5.
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8:30AM
WDST Radio
Woodstock, NY
Richard Geldard will join Doug Grunther on
WDST in Woodstock, (100.1 FM)  Discussion about Emerson and philosophy
The discussion should start around 8:30 that morning and last
a while.

11:00AM
CFPC
Birthday Celebration
Concord-1st Parish
Robert Richardson, Jr. speaking
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12:00 – 5:00 
Opening of the newly re-installed
Emerson Study. 
In recognition of the bicentennial of the birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803), the Concord Museum has restored the Emerson Study to its 1870s appearance. For the first time since 1930, when the Emerson family sent the Study’s contents from the Emerson House across the street on Cambridge Turnpike to an exact reproduction of the room in the Museum, the Study will appear as it did during Emerson’s lifetime.  Ralph Waldo Emerson enjoyed an international reputation in his lifetime as the leading light among American intellectuals. The thinkers that he gathered around him in Concord made that small town the center of the Transcendentalist movement in the 1840s; generations of travelers and students subsequently made a special pilgrimage to visit the always-welcoming “sage of Concord.” The center of this activity in Emerson’s home was the Study, making it an icon of American letters that is perhaps without parallel.  A photograph of Emerson in his Study shows that its present arrangement and contents are presently as they were in his lifetime. The two most significant elements to be restored in 2003 are the wallpaper and the carpet. The wallpaper, gold-on-white with sprays of lily-of-the-valley, has been reproduced from surviving samples. A recent discovery of a sample of a red Brussels carpet with a figure of roses and foliage visible in a c.1880 view of the Study now makes it possible to reproduce the carpet as well. Pursuing this renovation project will restore the Study, almost exactly, to its appearance 130 years ago.  The ongoing restoration process will be open for visitors to observe prior to the planned completion on Emerson’s birthday, May 25th.   The restoration is in collaboration with the Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association and is generously made possible by Richard W. Spaulding. 
Free with Museum admission. 

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8:00pm
Open Center
New York City

Emerson: An American Sage

A Bicentennial Tribute with Barbara Solowey

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was one of the great sages American history, the leading figure among the 19th Century transcendentalists, who continue to have enormous resonance and relevance. Drawing on the wisdom of Plato and Western thinkers, as well as on Eastern spiritual traditions, he spoke of “the one Self which animates all things and one Mind common to all.” He inspired many of the best minds of his age to quest for authentic freedom and self-knowledge igniting a quintessentially American hunger for direct, unmediated spiritual experience, truth, and unity. Come join a passionate Emerson scholar to celebrate the great literary, intellectual and spiritual legacy of a man who embodied much of what is noblest and most admirable in our national character.

Evening Lecture Thursday, May 29, 8pm

$16 Members
$18 Nonmembers - Code: 03SSWP21
NY Open Center
83 Spring Street
New York, NY
212-219-2527

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New York City
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882
A Bicentennial Celebration: His Life, His Work and His Legacy

Saturday, May 31, 1:30 - 5:30 PM (including reception)

Rediscover the wisdom of our great philosopher.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the 19th Century, awakened America to a vision of the transcendent Unity –

"One Self which animates all things and One Mind common to all."

Igniting a search for truth, freedom and self-knowledge, Emerson inspires readers to embrace these truths.

School of Practical Philosophy, 12 East 79th Street
Fee: $30.00 (refreshments and reception included)

Purchase tickets at the School bookstore or call (212) 744-0764.

Register online