Henry David Thoreau’s spectral presence inspires this reflection on how we might merge the seen and unseen in the twenty-first century. The awe and appreciation of living near Walden Pond and other sites related to the New England Transcendentalists is never far from how Shana Dumont Garr perceives the world. From 2016 to 2022, she served as curator of Fruitlands Museum, which was once the site of a short-lived Transcendentalist commune in 1843. Her work there included exhibiting objects related to Thoreau, such as the handwritten pages of his essays on nature. Drawing from contemporary philosophers including Jane Bennett, Ivan Gaskell, and David Abram, Shana will discuss how _the material_, like pencils in Fruitland's collection that Thoreau made, and _the ephemeral_, like memories or the experiences of reading and writing, inform each other. The seen and unseen are not opposites, but part of a cycle of belonging and becoming.
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