R. Todd Felton

pen4hire on February 15th, 2010

Destination: Concord, Massachusetts Site: Henry David Thoreau’s Home “What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?“

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pen4hire on November 20th, 2009

France on Friday Destination: Boston Book: Walking Boston by Robert Todd Felton A GUEST POST BY Robert Todd Felton Bivalve Molluscs, French Royalty, and the Streets of Boston One of the best parts of walking around Boston is that you are always bumping up against some surprising scrap of American history.  Around one corner is [...]

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pen4hire on March 3rd, 2009

Karen Gonyea has won a copy of Walking Boston by R. Todd Felton. I have sent a notification to Karen. Thanks every one of you who submitted a total of 95 entries to the contest. I know that many of the people who wrote are real fans of Boston, so I hope that you will [...]

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Transcendentalism is fascinating not just for the compelling figures and ideas that made up the movement but also for the glimpse it affords us into the nineteenth century New England from which it sprang. While Transcendentalist thinkers got their inspiration in German philosophy, English poetry, and Far Eastern spirituality, the central ideas of Transcendentalism are [...]

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