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Article: Walden in the woods (and onstage).(News from the world of Trees)(Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau)
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- American Forests
- Article date:
- March 22, 2009
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"To affect the quality of the day that is the highest of arts" - Henry David Thoreau
A new film, set in the most famous woods in literary history, is coming to public television, movie theaters, public radio, DVD, schools across North America, and online. Titled Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau, it is a play written and produced by folksinger Michael Johnathon, and tells the story of the final two days Thoreau spent in his cabin before leaving Walden Pond.
More than 7,200 colleges, other schools, and community theaters in some 37 different countries have performed the Walden play since it was written two years ago. American Forests was the first national ...