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Passage: Henry David Thoreau's 200th birthday

It happened this past week: the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great naturalist and writer Henry David Thoreau, on July 12, 1817. Thoreau's account of his two-year stay in a small cabin beside Walden Pond, near Concord, Mass., taught many about both natural observation and inward reflection. Lee Cowan reports.
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