Jim Moore's journal
About this original series
I am an independent inventor with a long-time interest in general systems and complexity theory, as well as media and politics and society.A hobby of mine is exploring Concord, Massachusetts-area history and historical sites, particularly of the time of Emerson, Thoreau, and Allcot.
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# Episodes
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Rating
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Episodes of Jim Moore's journal
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Prayer for Sudan
The story of a family in Darfur, Sudan..
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Release date
Apr 25, 2007
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Runtime
05:24
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A Prayer for Sudan
The song was written anonymously. The musicians - from Mali, on djembe and arrangements is Moussa Traore. Balla Tounkara is playing the kora and sings the background Bamanakan vocals. Dave Mattacks, who plays with Richard Thompson, is on drums. From Serbia is Mikael Merska on electric bass. Laura Cortese is an American fiddle player, and Adrian Aquirre, from Spain, plays percussion. Fishweasel sings.
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Release date
Apr 23, 2007
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Runtime
02:50
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Walden Pond, Concord Massachusetts, early evenin...
Walden Pond is the most famous body of water in American literature, due almost entirely to Henry David Thoreau's hermetic sojourn on the pond, and his description of the pond in his book Walden, in terms simultaneously naturalistic and metaphorical.Fellow blogger, and philosopher, Tom Morris and I walked along the pond in the light of evening, September 11, 2006.To me Walden Pond is a cause for hope and optimism. The pond continues to be a source of beauty, renewal, and recreation to its comm...
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Release date
Sep 12, 2006
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Runtime
01:02
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Henry David Thoreau's cabin near Walden Pond, Co...
From the beginning of Walden: When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again.Henry David Thoreau published Walden in 1854. The book is constructed as a kind of a journal of his life, philosop...
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Release date
Sep 12, 2006
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Runtime
03:00
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Bronson Alcott's Concord School of Philosophy, 1...
Tom and I visited Bronson Alcott's Concord School of Philosophy, located just outside of town. This site has an almost magical serenity, and it reminded Tom of the British Secular Schools and similar citizen-centered educational institutions and movements.Alcott was perhaps the most activist of the transcendentalists, seeking to put principles into life to the utmost possible extent. As a result he challenged others and himself, attempted some of the most extreme lifestyle experiments, and ult...
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Release date
Sep 12, 2006
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Runtime
01:35
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Ralph Waldo Emerson grave and stone, Concord, Ma...
Emerson was the organizer of the American spiritual and literary and social activism movement that today we know as Transcendentalism. His grave is a rough-hewn outsized boulder, and reflects his deep respect for raw nature, for the inner, uncut stone of the individual soul. It also shows his willingness to let his light shine, as he was a writer, an editor and publisher of the Dial, as well as the salon-maker and general patron of the movement in Concord and Boston.Tom Morris and Jim Moore vi...
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Release date
Sep 11, 2006
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Runtime
01:04
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Louisa May Alcott and family burial plot in Conc...
The Alcott family plot is a few yards to the east of the Thoreau family plot in a back lot of the Concord Cemetary. The design of the stones is similar to the Thoreau's, exceedingly modest, with Louisa May Alcott's stone having the simple initials LMA.From the Encyclopedia Brittanica: Louisa May Alcott born Nov. 29, 1832, Germantown, Pa., U.S. died March 6, 1888, Boston, Mass.U.S. author. Daughter of the reformer Bronson Alcott, she grew up in Transcendentalist circles in Boston and Concord, M...
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Release date
Sep 11, 2006
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Runtime
00:36
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Henry David Thoreau grave in Concord Cemetary, C...
Writer, activist, transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau was buried in 1862 in Concord Cemetary. He was 45 when he died, of an infection.I have always been impressed by the humble nature of Thoreau's gravestone. It measures about 10 inches high, and is inscribed only with "Henry." It would not even be recognizeable if it were not in a Thoreau family plot, where he is buried with his parents and siblings. Not many know of this grave, which is in a quiet back lot in the Concord Cemetary.Here from...
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Release date
Sep 11, 2006
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Runtime
00:48
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Looking down on the Old North Bridge
This short clip shows the view from the hill above the Concord River, looking southeast and down on the Old North Bridge. The "shot heard round the world" was fired by farmer militia-men on April, 1775 from this position toward British troops attempting to cross the river below.Bloggers Tom Morris and Jim Moore. September 11, 2006
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Release date
Sep 11, 2006
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Runtime
00:17
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The shot heard round the world 1775
The Old North Bridge, over the Concord River, outside of Concord Massachusetts. Here in April 1775 farmers from the area faced off against British troops who had come searching for hidden weapons, including brass cannons recently stolen from the British army in Boston. Farmers poised above the river crossing fired on the troops attempting to cross, stopping them and initiating a retreat. The "shot heard round the world" set off a bloody running battle as 700 British troops attempted to return ...
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Release date
Sep 11, 2006
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Runtime
00:56
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