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The Transcendentalist Times

 * Concord, Massachusett's**

Shirley Jackson** Local townsman Henry David Thoreau has recently taken leave from town to reside in a small cottage. He has apparently been given a plot of land from a friend of the paper, Ralph Waldo Emerson. The land given to him is located at Walden Pond, just one and a half miles out of town. Thoreau claims that he will build, by himself, a one-room abode in which he can live for what he plans to be a couple of years. He has expressed to different people reasons for why he wishes to abandon such a great town. All of his reasons may be unknown, however what he has most often shared is that he wishes to diverge from a superfluous society - all the unnecessary business associated with today.
 * July 6th, 1846