The Thoreau Society Shop at Walden Pond

This is an amazing bookshop at the Walden Pond visitors center. It's run and curated by the Thoreau Society, so the selection is expertly tailored to the site specifically and to Thoreau, Emerson, and the transcendentalists in general.

The shop clerk when I was there was helpful, friendly, and very knowledgeable. He recommended one of the books to me, which I purchased on his recommendation.

This was my very first time ever coming to Walden Pond & The Replica house of Henry David Thorau, originally back in high school my English teacher tryed so hard for us to go & the English department to go to Walden Pond & The Replica house of Henry David. My English 102 professor at QCC ( Professor "Marjorie Pechet") was so extremely lucky to have planned this amazing event/ trip to see all that , we also, went to Louisa May Alcott House tour. Such amazing trip/ day. I hopefully someday will ho to see the Emerson house & see where the ( actual) home of the famous Henry David Thorau lived. This gift shop was so beautiful inside. I did get some amazing post cards with famous quotes of Henry David Thorau & a maget as well to go on my magnetic board of all the places I've been to over the yrs .

I was able to purchase my support structure here. It enabled me to reach my goal of swimming across the pond and back and not doing the big S! The staff at this store have always been supportive and thought provoking to me and their gentle way of explaining to me how things fly here have always been interesting. I met a fellow who is part of this "Walden Pond Group" a few years back and he was renting rooms from his home right near the prison. I rented a room from him because Gaetana was losing her cookies again. First he says NO LOCJS ON THE DOORS, then he says I STEAL YOUR COOKWEAR, GO BITE! Then he says something like RENT JUST WENT UP, PAY MORE MONEY! So folks, just BUYER BEWARE when you are out here!

Too early for the foliage today but it was a beautiful day for the pond

This may be the best Thoreau book shop in America. It's on the shore of Walden Pond. Jon and his staff keep the shop well stocked and neat as a pin.