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Modern Times, Rural Places:<br>
Seminar Series at MIT<br>
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"The Husbandry of John Muir" <br>
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Donald Worster<br>
Hall Distinguished Professor of American History, University of
Kansas<br>
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John Muir the solitary mountaineer, the devoted worshipper who found in
nature a divine and perfect wholeness, has inspired many readers, but we
have missed the significance of his career as a farmer, a thrifty manager
of the earth’s resources. Much of his life was devoted to making
the earth yield crops. Muir said little about that agricultural side of
his life, about the satisfactions or pains it brought. Hints in his
letters or unpublished journals are all we have to reveal what husbandry
meant to him: a few glimpses of how he used the land, how he regarded the
results, and how his practices compared to those of other farmers.
Scanty though they are, those glimpses are enough to make Muir a more
complicated figure in the landscape than a simple lover of the
wild. <br>
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Friday, March 10, 2006<br>
2:30 to 4:30 pm<br>
Building E51 Room 095<br>
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Sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and the Program in Science,
Technology, and Society<br>
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