Thoreau’s Cabin: A Visit to Walden Pond

This semester, myself and six other students have been spending our Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings in a particularly unique classroom: a replica of Henry David Thoreau’s cabin, situated on the Vassar Preserve. The aim of English 307—taught by Professor Paul Kane—has been to study the life and works of Thoreau in an especially “Thoreauvian” way by using our class time to construct a life-size replica of his…