A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks
James Schlett, "A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks"
English | ISBN: 1501704451 | 2016 | 272 pages | PDF | 28 MB
English | ISBN: 1501704451 | 2016 | 272 pages | PDF | 28 MB
In August 1858, William James Stillman, a painter and founding editor of the acclaimed but short-lived art journal The Crayon, organized a camping expedition for some of America's preeminent intellectuals to Follensby Pond in the Adirondacks. Dubbed the "Philosophers' Camp," the trip included the Swiss American scientist and Harvard College professor Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, the Republican lawyer and future U.S. attorney general Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, the Cambridge poet James Russell Lowell, and the transcendental philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, who would later pen a poem about the experience. News that these cultured men were living like "Sacs and Sioux" in the wilderness appeared in newspapers across the nation and helped fuel a widespread interest in exploring the Adirondacks.
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