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| January 13, 2018 |
Wednesday. Go to Lynn to lecture, via Cambridge.
4.30 P.M. — At Jonathan Buffum's, Lynn. Lecture in John B. Alley's parlor.
Mr. J. Buffum describes to me ancient wolf-traps, made probably by the early settlers in Lynn, perhaps after an Indian model; one some two miles from the shore near Saugus, another more northerly; holes say seven feet deep, about as long, and some three feet wide, stoned up very smoothly, and perhaps converging a little, so that the wolf could not get out.
Tradition says that a wolf and a squaw were one morning found in the same hole, staring at each other.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, January 13, 1858
Lecture at Lynn. Thoreau likely presented “An Excursion to the Maine Woods”. See Thoreau's Lectures after Walden. 289-92
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| January 13, 2018 |
A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau
"A book, each page written in its own season,
out-of-doors, in its own locality.”
~edited, assembled and rewritten by zphx © 2009-2022
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