This online exhibition is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Early Spring: Henry Thoreau and Climate Change was an exhibition in the Wallace Kane Gallery at the Concord Museum from April 12, 2013 to September 15, 2013
Early Spring Resource Team
William Brumback, Conservation Director,
New England Wild Flower Society
Gary Clayton, Vice President for Conservation Programs,
Massachusetts Audubon Society
Libby Ellwood, Ecologist
Jayne Gordon, Director of Education and Public Programs,
Massachusetts Historical Society
Linda Harrar, Independent Executive Director and Producer
Caroline Polgar, Primack Lab, Boston University
Laura Dassow Walls, Professor of English, University of Notre Dame
Leslie Perrin Wilson, Curator, William Munroe Special
Collections at the Concord Free Public Library
Andy Wood, Coastal Plain Conservation Group
Early Spring: Henry Thoreau and Climate Change was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services
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Forrest and Marcie Berkley
Many thanks to Guest Scholar Richard Primack, Boston University
Institutional Lenders to the Exhibition
Harvard University Herbaria
Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
New England Botanical Club
William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library
Individual Lenders to the Exhibition
D’Anne Bodman and Harvey Nosowitz, Cherrie Corey, Rosita Corey,
Libby Ellwood, Sally Searles Ferbert, Sam Jaffe, Abe Miller-Rushing,
Caroline Polgar, Richard Primack
Contributing Photographers
Cherrie Corey, Tim Laman, Larry Warfield, Alice Wellington, David Bohl, Robert Cheney, Vernon Doucette, Libby Ellwood, Go Botany, Sam Jaffe, Abe Miller-Rushing, Nora Murphy, Caroline Polgar, Richard Primack, Project BudBurst
Sound Specialist
Kezia Simister
Film Production
Six One Seven Studios
Background photo credit: Alice Wellington