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- THOREAU COLLEGE PRESENTS - An Evening with HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Screening and Conversation with Erik Ewers - Director of the Ken Burns' film "Henry David Thoreau"
Thoreau College is thrilled to welcome our local community for an evening of film and conversation about the life and legacy of Henry David Thoreau with documentarian Erik Ewers, director of the recent PBS/Ken Burns documentary film HENRY DAVID THOREAU. The critically acclaimed film was directed by Erik and Christopher Loren Ewers and executive produced by Ken Burns and Don Henley. It premiered nationally on PBS in March 2026 and features George Clooney as narrator and Jeff Goldblum as the voice of Thoreau. Combining the richly textured archival documentary style of a classic Ken Burns production with the voices and new scholarship of some of the leading contemporary interpreters of Thoreau’s life and works, this new documentary reintroduces Thoreau to a new generation when his life and ideas are uniquely resonant. The film presents the local and global context of Thoreau’s time in fresh and engaging ways, including the expansion of industry, the struggle for the abolition of slavery, the rising role of women in political and cultural life, the evolution of attitudes towards spirituality and religion, and the dawning of ecological consciousness.
Join us for a special conversation with an accomplished filmmaker about the life and legacy of one our greatest American writers and thinkers.
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401 E. Jefferson St., Viroqua, WI, United States, Wisconsin 54665
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