Susie Bright: This date, from Henry David Thoreau's journal

Posted by Susie Bright, December 17, 2008 10:28 AM | permalink

"The pitch pine woods on the right of the Corner road. A piercing cold afternoon, wading in the snow. R. Rice was going to Sudbury to put his bees into the cellar for fear they would freeze. He had a small hive; not enough to keep each other warm. The pitch pines hold the snow well. It lies now in balls on their plumes and in streaks on their branches, their low branches rising at a small angle and meeting each other. A certain dim religious light comes through this roof of pine leaves and snow. It is a somber twilight, yet in some places the sun streams in, producing the strongest contrasts of light and shade."

Each day of the year Kris Holmes publishes an entry from one of Thoreau's journals, dating from 1837 to 1861.

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#1 posted by caitifty , December 17, 2008 10:47 AM

If you like this, you might also like the daily posting of Samuel Pepy's diary at http://www.pepysdiary.com/ - the annotations by readers are also fascinating.

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#2 posted by padster123 , December 17, 2008 10:57 AM

Readers of Kim Stanley Robinson's "Science in the Capital" series will smile at this posting...

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#3 posted by radlib , December 17, 2008 11:27 AM

Thanks for this. The url to the blog is actually hdt.typepad.com. This is a lovely idea to post famous people's diaries as blogs. Are there others?

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#4 posted by chris farrell , December 17, 2008 11:49 AM

Great idea. Thoreau's journals are my all-time favorite reading.

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#5 posted by buddy66 , December 17, 2008 12:14 PM

What a wonderful thing to do.