Concord and New Vrindaban

18May07

    Today’s New York Times travel section has an article about Concord, Massachusetts that describes the important literary figures of the town, both past and present. Of course, the Transcendentalist connections and Walden Pond are the star attractions for most visitors there.

New Vrindaban has a link to the Transcendentalists through Hayagriva das, who was a professor of English at Ohio State University in Columbus. One of the first publications I read about New Vrindaban, when it was just the old landlocked farm, mentioned Thoreau and Walden. It was a black-and-white brochure or something, and had a picture of the dome or the a-frame (maybe both).

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