HHNM: Unlikely Kindred Spirits
Evening Speaker Series: Unlikely Kindred Spirits: A New Vision of Nature in the Works of Asher B. Durand and Henry David Thoreau
The Hudson Highlands Nature Museum in partnership with the Cornwall Presbyterian Church presents the Fall Evening Speakers Series: Unlikely Kindred Spirits: A New Vision of Nature in the Works of Asher B. Durand and Henry David Thoreau - This lecture will take place on Tuesday, October 12, 7:30 p.m. at the Cornwall Presbyterian Fellowship Hall, 222 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson. Hudson River School painter Asher B. Durand and New England Transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau are unlikely kindred spirits. They came from different generations and regional cultures, as well as different intellectual and artistic traditions. Yet in their close observations of nature, Durand in his plein air oil sketches and Thoreau in his daily journal writing – they mutually advanced a new vision of nature! Come join Dr. H. Daniel Peck, Vassar College Professor of English and former director of Vassar’s Environmental Studies Program and its American Culture Program as he discusses this vision which was indebted partly to scientific discoveries of the period between 1830 and the Civil War. This program is funded, in part, by the New York Council for the Humanities.
For more information call 845-534-5506, ext. 204.
Visit the museum’s website www.hhnaturemuseum.org . Come early for better seating. Suggested donation: $7, Museum members and church members: $5. Beverages and desserts available .
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