Join us at Mountain Lakes House to discuss "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau. The discussion will include an indoor study of plant pressings, with the opportunity to create one.
Members of the FOPOS team will showcase a herbarium, a collection of pressed plants gathered from the Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve in the late 1980s. Participants will have the opportunity to connect with local flora and create their own artwork or greeting cards using pressed plants, blending observation, creativity, and reflection.
Presented in partnership with the Princeton Public Library and the Princeton Environmental Film Festival, this series is dedicated to readings about conservation, stewardship, and our relationship with nature. Led by Diana Newby, FOPOS board member and Associate Director of Writing at Princeton University, each meeting includes a discussion of the book and an accompanying activity. Registration is requested.
About the book
In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. During the two years and two months he spent there, he began to write Walden, a chronicle of his communion with nature that became one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature.
Venue details
Mountain Lakes House
57 Mountain Ave.
Princeton, NJ 08540
Drive down the long paved driveway entrance to the Billy Johnson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve, marked by a series of black mailboxes along Mountain Avenue. The gravel parking lot is located on the left, approximately 1/2 mile down the driveway.