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Henry David Thoreau was an American author and philosopher who in the year 1845 resigned himself from public life to a shack in the woods next to a lake for two years,
two months and two days of his life.
Now why would somebody ever do that?
Well, if you wanted to get a little closer to finding out why,
might not be a bad idea to visit the actual shack that he lived in.
You can do it.
Well, it's a replica shack.
They rebuilt the shack, but you can visit the actual site where he built his shack before it got torn down.
They found the hearth or the bottom of the fireplace buried just underneath the dirt and from there they extrapolated where the rest of the cabin had to have been.
But the fact remains to this day, you can go to Concord,
Massachusetts and you can stand on the exact spot where Thoreau stood.
You can look around you.
You can see the actual beautiful views that he talks about in his writing.
You can close your eyes and if you listen carefully,
if you're able to drown out the constant drone of SUVs and motorcycles passing on the road just behind you,
you can hear many of the same things that he heard.