05/22/2026
This Sunday’s service: Lead by Shana Dumont Garr. 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. She served as curator of Fruitlands Museum, which was once the site of a short-lived Transcendentalist commune in 1843, from 2016 to 2022. Her work included exhibiting objects related to Thoreau, such as 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—such as pencils made by Thoreau in Fruitland’s collection—and the ephemeral—such as memories and 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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