In the staycation era, the art of deliberate escape
Posted on AllSides May 21st, 2020
From The Center
Many are making the most of their own backyards as the virus cancels vacations. Our writer finds that day trips to nearby Walden Pond allow for a slower pace and reflection – in the spirit of America’s first social distancer.
Thoreau, I think, might have understood our collective predicament. Or so it seems on this dank April day in a spring that meteorologists are calling New England’s coldest ever. I am in Concord, Massachusetts, standing in front of a replica of the hut where Henry David Thoreau undertook his...
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