Thoreau's Walden May Become A Soccer Field

17 April 2007 - 7:00am

This report from NPR looks at a Massachusetts school's efforts to build soccer fields in part of the forest Henry David Thoreau wrote about in his book Walden.

A landfill, former gravel mining site, and four-lane highway now occupy much of the land Thoreau once lived in and wrote about.

Concord High School has plans to build two fully-lit, all-weather soccer fields on 15 acres of land it owns in Walden woods.

Source: NPR, April 16, 2007
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