Henry David Thoreau

On this day in 1847, Henry David Thoreau concluded his sojourn at Walden pond. Seven years later he would publish his account and start a revolution in the spiritual thinking of America and, indeed, the world.*

* several people have asked how I know so much about various signal events in the history of Unitarianism, Universalism and Unitarian Universalism. Well, it’s simple. I steal it, mostly from Frank Schulman’s wonderful This Day in Unitarian Universalist History: A Treasury of Anniversaries and Milestones from 600 Years of Religious Tradition.