Walden Pond Project

Experts

 * Scholars

Agenda

 * 1) Go To Walden
 * 2) Talk with Park Interpreter
 * 3) Talk with Park Visitors
 * 4) Concord Museum
 * 5) Talk with Museum Curator
 * 6) Research Amusement Park @ Walden - John Hay Library
 * 7) Thoreau Experts
 * What does Walden Mean to You (Intellectual Consecration)
 * Put Walden & Thoreau in Context

Fakeness

 * Question of what is really fake

Walden Branding

 * Walden as a brand-name -> extension of theme, proof of themeing?
 * 1) Walden Media (Studio, made Chronicles of Narnia) ->
 * 2) The Walden Project - High School Students ->

Documentaries

 * Pilgrimage to Walden Pond ->
 * Ken Burn on National Parks ->

Books

 * JOSIAH -> Search Term " HAY LOWNES THOREAU"


 * Story of the Guy who "found" site of Cabin
 * From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park ->
 * The Mystery of Walden Pond ->

Film Outline
Problematizing Walden as Nature

1. Establishment 2. David Wood & Thoreau Montage 3. Park Interpreter 4. Atkinson 5. Physically Constructing Walden 7. 1922 Deed -> "preserving the Walden of Emerson and Thoreau" 8. 1941 - 1949 -> Thoreau Society 9. 1990 - today: Walden Woods Project 10. David Wood Follow-Up
 * Image of Walden Pond
 * Physical Place
 * Cabin
 * Book
 * Old Pictures
 * Talks about popularity
 * Thoreau Themed Events
 * Walden as Nature
 * Stats
 * NY Times
 * Park as vital recreational space
 * Mythos
 * After Thoreau:
 * Theme Park
 * Popular Weekend Destinations
 * Literary Critics become Preservationists
 * Again Amalgamation of Print Culture & Conservation
 * Is Walden Pond Natural?