Talk:Walden Pond

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Gad, these americans can never get the name right of things at 61 acres, it not a pond its a lake. --Salix alba (talk) 22:26, 19 April 2006 (UTC) (who lives on a small island UK)

Pond versus lake? That’s nothing!
Pond versus lake? That’s nothing! You are parsing regional isoglosses from 150-years-ago.

I ran into a fellow that Thoreau’s Walden was in Massachusetts, and I was sure that it was in Maine. I Lived in Walden, Vermont years ago, and had to pass through Walden, New York to get there from my hometown. So my awareness of towns named Walden was keen, but before I lived in Vermont, I read brilliant article published in Playboy called "Thoreau Never Mentioned the Damned Bugs", which talks about a group of people going to Maine to re-live the Thoreau experience. I referenced this article.

This fellow asked me, “Have you ever been certain of something and later found that you were wrong?”

“Of course,” I told him.

So we promised each other to look this up, and no wonder there is so much confusion; I have found references to both Maine and Massachusetts here on Wikipedia. However, I looked up Walden in my Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, and it states that Thoreau’s Walden was in Concord, New Hampshire, not Concord, Massachusetts.

Thoreau also wrote The Maine Woods where he begins his trek to the backwoods of Maine starting out from Concord, Massachusetts.

The various maps that I have found on the web are conflicting–so conflicting that it seems that the state lines may have shifted since the time of Thoreau. From this cursory research, it seems that Thoreau was hardly a static fellow.

Oh, and I found Waldo.

Emerson?
Shouldn't something be said about Emerson's purchase of some of the property? Seems relevant since they are both american individualists.

166.19.200.110 (talk) 17:50, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

I second this notion. Also, can we change the bit about the shoreline, "Portions of the pond's shore are beach, while other parts descend steeply to the water from trails that ring the pond." This is true sometimes, but hasn't been the case all season, as the water has been low enough to get an ATV around the shore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.129.237.33 (talk) 20:31, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Two Walden Ponds in MA
There is another lake in Lynn, Massachusetts also named Walden Pond. That one is bigger in area. See Google map at. I guess some clarification is required. -Eh kia (talk) 03:42, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

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Source of the name?
No mention is made of the source of the name. I have read in the journal of the Thoreau Society, quoted on the website of the town of Horsmonden, in Kent (from whence Major Willard emigrated) that the pond was given its name by Major Simon Willard, who founded the town of Concord just to the north of the Pond, after the town of Saffron Walden in Essex, and in honor of a Major Walden who was a colleague of Willard's. While that is not definitive, I cannot find any competing claims, and think it's worth mentioning here as a tentative eponym. Bricology (talk) 23:28, 20 August 2023 (UTC)