Explore the life of Thoreau scholar Walter Harding (1917-1996), who helped found the Thoreau Society in 1941, told the story of Thoreau’s life in The Days of Henry Thoreau (1966), was the inaugural editor of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, and edited, among many other works, The Annotated Walden, The Variorum Walden, and The Variorum Civil Disobedience.
Our Omeka exhibit on Harding, The Days of Walter Harding, Thoreau Scholar was created and is maintained by students at SUNY Geneseo, where Harding taught from 1956-1982.