«Thoreau is Alive and Visiting Bedford!». The Preservationist. Bedford MA Historical Society. Archivado desde el original el 12 de enero de 2024. Consultado el 13 de enero de 2024. «He also has appeared in some of the locations that Thoreau visited, including Lowell, Boston, Salem, Fitchburg, Framingham, Cape Cod, Brattleboro, Vermont and Moosehead Lake in Maine.»
bostonglobe.com
«Why Thoreau still matters». Boston Globe. 4 de enero de 2017. Archivado desde el original el 8 de abril de 2018. Consultado el 13 de enero de 2024. «'I'm as well as I deserve,' said Thoreau, as portrayed by historian Richard Smith, during a First Day hike Sunday at Walden Pond. Smith was seated by the woodstove inside the replica of the American philosopher's cabin in the shadow of the new visitors' center at Walden Pond State Reservation.»
c-span.org
«Richard Smith». CSPAN. Archivado desde el original el 17 de febrero de 2024. Consultado el 13 de enero de 2024. «Actor Richard Smith, portraying Henry David Thoreau, read Thoreau's "Slavery in Massachusetts". He then talked about the role of slavery in Thoreau's lifetime. Thoreau was an abolitionist who helped runaway slaves and worked to repeal the fugitive slave law. He answered questions from the audience.»
concordland.org
«'Wild and Noble Sites': A Walk to Egg Rock». Concord Land Conservation Trust. Archivado desde el original el 13 de enero de 2024. Consultado el 13 de enero de 2024. «Richard Smith has lectured on and written about antebellum United States and 19th-Century American history and literature since 1995.»
democratandchronicle.com
Flanigan, Robin L. (23 de marzo de 2017). «Why Richard Smith impersonates Thoreau». Democrat and Chronicle. Archivado desde el original el 17 de diciembre de 2023. Consultado el 17 de diciembre de 2023. «He got into hiking as a Boy Scout, and after college focused his personal studies on the spiritual teachings of Native Americans and Transcendentalists, who put a higher value on the inherent goodness of people and nature over the corruption that can come with social institutions.»
Marovich, Beatrice (25 de octubre de 2010). «Becoming Thoreau». Killing The Buddha. Archivado desde el original el 17 de diciembre de 2023. Consultado el 17 de diciembre de 2023. «I was always attracted to the troublemakers in American history. Not just Thoreau, but Abby Hoffman, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Paine. All of the rebels...Thoreau is just a small part of this radical, vibrant group of thinkers in the mid-19th century. People like Theodore Parker, or Margaret Fuller, or Lizzie Peabody. These people are all fighting for women's rights, they're fighting for African-Americans' rights. They're fighting for an end to unjust war.»
lareviewofbooks.org
«Town of the Living Dead». LA Review of Books. 15 de octubre de 2013. Archivado desde el original el 17 de diciembre de 2023. Consultado el 17 de diciembre de 2023. «“I use the term 'historic interpreter' or 'living historian.' But when people say 'impersonator,' that doesn't bother me.”».
loe.org
«Living on Earth». Living On Earth. 7 de julio de 2017. Archivado desde el original el 13 de enero de 2024. Consultado el 13 de enero de 2024. «Richard Smith does a professional impression of Henry David Thoreau, and all of a sudden it's a warm July day in 1847.»
mainehistory.org
«"SWEET AND BEAUTIFUL SOULS: LONGFELLOW AND THE CONCORD WRITERS" WITH RICHARD SMITH». Maine Historical Society. Archivado desde el original el 12 de enero de 2024. Consultado el 12 de enero de 2024. «Richard Smith has lectured on and written about antebellum United States history and 19th-century American literature since 1995. He has worked in Concord as a public historian and Living History Interpreter for 25 years and has portrayed Henry Thoreau at Walden Pond and around the country.»
scituation.net
«A Day With the Father of Transcendentalism». Scituation. 7 de diciembre de 2016. Archivado desde el original el 17 de diciembre de 2023. Consultado el 17 de diciembre de 2023. «Smith argued that he is 'a historian, not an actor,' when being questioned about the origins of his interest in acting. He found himself agreeing with the basic principles of Thoreau's way of life.»
theatlantic.com
Madrigal, Alexis C. (26 de octubre de 2010). «The punk rocker who 'becomes' Thoreau». The Atlantic Monthly. Archivado desde el original el 12 de enero de 2024. Consultado el 13 de enero de 2024. «But few people, not even the most dedicated greens enchanted by Thoreau's environmental ethics, can match Richard Smith's dedication to the man. Smith practices "living history," dressing up as and acting like Thoreau.»
thoreaufarm.org
«One Honest Walk». Thoreau Farm. 11 de octubre de 2016. Archivado desde el original el 3 de junio de 2023. Consultado el 13 de enero de 2024. «I left Concord, Massachusetts, Wednesday morning, September 25th, 1850, for Quebec. … I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon. ~ Henry Thoreau, in his opening paragraph of A Yankee in Canada.»
thoreausociety.org
«Social Awareness: Thoreau and the Reform Movement». The Thoreau Society. 2009. Archivado desde el original el 17 de diciembre de 2023. Consultado el 17 de diciembre de 2023. «Richard Smith received his BA in History from the University of Akron in 1985. For the last nine years he has lived and worked in the Concord area. Richard has appeared as Henry Thoreau at various sites in Concord, Boston, Maine, and Tennessee, as well as on C-Span and on the Boston television show “Chronicle” and is a regular at Walden Pond. He currently works for the Thoreau Society and is writing a book on 19th-century Concord.»
«The Other 'Hermit' of Thoreau's Walden Pond: The Sojourn of Edmond Stuart Hotham: A Review». Thoreau Society Bulletin (308): 8. 2020. Archivado desde el original el 12 de enero de 2024. Consultado el 12 de enero de 2024. «In the Foreword to this book, Thoreau interpreter and historian Richard Smith argues that Hotham was not an imitator of Thoreau and that his sojourn at Walden Pond was distinct from Thoreau's earlier and more famous experience.»
«A Day With the Father of Transcendentalism». Scituation. 7 de diciembre de 2016. Archivado desde el original el 17 de diciembre de 2023. Consultado el 17 de diciembre de 2023. «Smith argued that he is 'a historian, not an actor,' when being questioned about the origins of his interest in acting. He found himself agreeing with the basic principles of Thoreau's way of life.»
«Town of the Living Dead». LA Review of Books. 15 de octubre de 2013. Archivado desde el original el 17 de diciembre de 2023. Consultado el 17 de diciembre de 2023. «“I use the term 'historic interpreter' or 'living historian.' But when people say 'impersonator,' that doesn't bother me.”».
«Social Awareness: Thoreau and the Reform Movement». The Thoreau Society. 2009. Archivado desde el original el 17 de diciembre de 2023. Consultado el 17 de diciembre de 2023. «Richard Smith received his BA in History from the University of Akron in 1985. For the last nine years he has lived and worked in the Concord area. Richard has appeared as Henry Thoreau at various sites in Concord, Boston, Maine, and Tennessee, as well as on C-Span and on the Boston television show “Chronicle” and is a regular at Walden Pond. He currently works for the Thoreau Society and is writing a book on 19th-century Concord.»
Flanigan, Robin L. (23 de marzo de 2017). «Why Richard Smith impersonates Thoreau». Democrat and Chronicle. Archivado desde el original el 17 de diciembre de 2023. Consultado el 17 de diciembre de 2023. «He got into hiking as a Boy Scout, and after college focused his personal studies on the spiritual teachings of Native Americans and Transcendentalists, who put a higher value on the inherent goodness of people and nature over the corruption that can come with social institutions.»
Madrigal, Alexis C. (26 de octubre de 2010). «The punk rocker who 'becomes' Thoreau». The Atlantic Monthly. Archivado desde el original el 12 de enero de 2024. Consultado el 13 de enero de 2024. «But few people, not even the most dedicated greens enchanted by Thoreau's environmental ethics, can match Richard Smith's dedication to the man. Smith practices "living history," dressing up as and acting like Thoreau.»
Marovich, Beatrice (25 de octubre de 2010). «Becoming Thoreau». Killing The Buddha. Archivado desde el original el 17 de diciembre de 2023. Consultado el 17 de diciembre de 2023. «I was always attracted to the troublemakers in American history. Not just Thoreau, but Abby Hoffman, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Paine. All of the rebels...Thoreau is just a small part of this radical, vibrant group of thinkers in the mid-19th century. People like Theodore Parker, or Margaret Fuller, or Lizzie Peabody. These people are all fighting for women's rights, they're fighting for African-Americans' rights. They're fighting for an end to unjust war.»
«Living on Earth». Living On Earth. 7 de julio de 2017. Archivado desde el original el 13 de enero de 2024. Consultado el 13 de enero de 2024. «Richard Smith does a professional impression of Henry David Thoreau, and all of a sudden it's a warm July day in 1847.»
«Why Thoreau still matters». Boston Globe. 4 de enero de 2017. Archivado desde el original el 8 de abril de 2018. Consultado el 13 de enero de 2024. «'I'm as well as I deserve,' said Thoreau, as portrayed by historian Richard Smith, during a First Day hike Sunday at Walden Pond. Smith was seated by the woodstove inside the replica of the American philosopher's cabin in the shadow of the new visitors' center at Walden Pond State Reservation.»
«'Wild and Noble Sites': A Walk to Egg Rock». Concord Land Conservation Trust. Archivado desde el original el 13 de enero de 2024. Consultado el 13 de enero de 2024. «Richard Smith has lectured on and written about antebellum United States and 19th-Century American history and literature since 1995.»
«Thoreau is Alive and Visiting Bedford!». The Preservationist. Bedford MA Historical Society. Archivado desde el original el 12 de enero de 2024. Consultado el 13 de enero de 2024. «He also has appeared in some of the locations that Thoreau visited, including Lowell, Boston, Salem, Fitchburg, Framingham, Cape Cod, Brattleboro, Vermont and Moosehead Lake in Maine.»
«One Honest Walk». Thoreau Farm. 11 de octubre de 2016. Archivado desde el original el 3 de junio de 2023. Consultado el 13 de enero de 2024. «I left Concord, Massachusetts, Wednesday morning, September 25th, 1850, for Quebec. … I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon. ~ Henry Thoreau, in his opening paragraph of A Yankee in Canada.»
«Richard Smith». CSPAN. Archivado desde el original el 17 de febrero de 2024. Consultado el 13 de enero de 2024. «Actor Richard Smith, portraying Henry David Thoreau, read Thoreau's "Slavery in Massachusetts". He then talked about the role of slavery in Thoreau's lifetime. Thoreau was an abolitionist who helped runaway slaves and worked to repeal the fugitive slave law. He answered questions from the audience.»
«A Conversation with Henry David Thoreau». WGBH. 24 de octubre de 2014. Archivado desde el original el 13 de enero de 2024. Consultado el 13 de enero de 2024. «Step back in time to 1855 as Henry David Thoreau, the “Hermit of Walden Pond,” visits Old South Meeting House! Was noted Transcendentalist, abolitionist and naturalist Thoreau really a hermit? What did he think of Boston, where he regularly visited the Athenaeum? Get the answers to these and other questions as you visit with Mr. Thoreau, portrayed by historian Richard Smith.»
«"SWEET AND BEAUTIFUL SOULS: LONGFELLOW AND THE CONCORD WRITERS" WITH RICHARD SMITH». Maine Historical Society. Archivado desde el original el 12 de enero de 2024. Consultado el 12 de enero de 2024. «Richard Smith has lectured on and written about antebellum United States history and 19th-century American literature since 1995. He has worked in Concord as a public historian and Living History Interpreter for 25 years and has portrayed Henry Thoreau at Walden Pond and around the country.»
«The Other 'Hermit' of Thoreau's Walden Pond: The Sojourn of Edmond Stuart Hotham: A Review». Thoreau Society Bulletin (308): 8. 2020. Archivado desde el original el 12 de enero de 2024. Consultado el 12 de enero de 2024. «In the Foreword to this book, Thoreau interpreter and historian Richard Smith argues that Hotham was not an imitator of Thoreau and that his sojourn at Walden Pond was distinct from Thoreau's earlier and more famous experience.»
wgbh.org
«A Conversation with Henry David Thoreau». WGBH. 24 de octubre de 2014. Archivado desde el original el 13 de enero de 2024. Consultado el 13 de enero de 2024. «Step back in time to 1855 as Henry David Thoreau, the “Hermit of Walden Pond,” visits Old South Meeting House! Was noted Transcendentalist, abolitionist and naturalist Thoreau really a hermit? What did he think of Boston, where he regularly visited the Athenaeum? Get the answers to these and other questions as you visit with Mr. Thoreau, portrayed by historian Richard Smith.»
