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January 2024 by Kim Whamond
Beautiful day for First Day Walk!
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November 2023 by Alan Tauber
After a walk around the pond 1.7 miles I get to stop in to the Society Shop at Walden and get a cold drink, browse thru the books and spend a few minutes with the folks behind the counter. A great place, very warm people. Thanks for being there!
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November 2023 by Alex Chernyaev
Nice place with friendly staff and with a beautiful clean restroom. A lot of interesting information about Walden and Thoreau. Interactive exhibition. Highly recommended
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July 2023 by Erik
Let me preface by stating that I love Walden Pond with all my heart, which is why it makes me so sad to have to write this review. The elderly woman cashier with grey hair was very rude to one of the customers in the store, snarking at the woman to not take any photographs and to buy the prints instead, “why don’t you buy the prints instead of taking pictures of them?”, the whole confrontation was uncomfortable. If you run a shop and put things on display you’re gonna have to deal with people photographing your stuff. It was evident that she was uninterested in being service minded or even remotely friendly. I get that everyone can have a bad day, but if you work in a shop at least ACT like you’re interested in being there. To my great disappointment the shop’s selection was comparatively limited and focused a great deal on Thoreau instead of the Pond itself. Overall this shop sells short of what it could be. Come on guys.
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July 2023 by Ruben Stemple
Nice selection and clean.
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September 2022 by librarianlorraine
This shop is beautifully stocked with Walden themed merchandise and resources on nature. There's a wonderful selection of clothing. I found maple syrup and local preserves as well. The staff, however, were like night and day. Peter A served us one afternoon. He was helpful and accommodating. As the author of one of the nature books, he kindly signed it for us. The next day we returned to exchange a shirt. Staffer C. S. was behind the counter. She was irritable, short, not helpful at all and spoke rudely about other staffers. The shop gets a 5. Staffer C. S. gets a 1.
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June 2022 by Samuel Howard
This is an amazing bookshop at the Walden Pond visitors center. It's run and curated by the Thoreau Society, so the selection is expertly tailored to the site specifically and to Thoreau, Emerson, and the transcendentalists in general.The shop clerk when I was there was helpful, friendly, and very knowledgeable. He recommended one of the books to me, which I purchased on his recommendation.
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May 2022 by Connie Mashock
I will come here over and over.
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March 2022 by tyler wills
This was my very first time ever coming to Walden Pond & The Replica house of Henry David Thorau, originally back in high school my English teacher tryed so hard for us to go & the English department to go to Walden Pond & The Replica house of Henry David. My English 102 professor at QCC ( Professor "Marjorie Pechet") was so extremely lucky to have planned this amazing event/ trip to see all that , we also, went to Louisa May Alcott House tour. Such amazing trip/ day. I hopefully someday will ho to see the Emerson house & see where the ( actual) home of the famous Henry David Thorau lived. This gift shop was so beautiful inside. I did get some amazing post cards with famous quotes of Henry David Thorau & a maget as well to go on my magnetic board of all the places I've been to over the yrs .
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December 2021 by Jill Stewart
I was able to purchase my support structure here. It enabled me to reach my goal of swimming across the pond and back and not doing the big S! The staff at this store have always been supportive and thought provoking to me and their gentle way of explaining to me how things fly here have always been interesting. I met a fellow who is part of this "Walden Pond Group" a few years back and he was renting rooms from his home right near the prison. I rented a room from him because Gaetana was losing her cookies again. First he says NO LOCJS ON THE DOORS, then he says I STEAL YOUR COOKWEAR, GO BITE! Then he says something like RENT JUST WENT UP, PAY MORE MONEY! So folks, just BUYER BEWARE when you are out here!
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October 2021 by Cindy Woodcock
Too early for the foliage today but it was a beautiful day for the pond
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October 2021 by Rholais Lii
Parking spots are limited ?️
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September 2021 by 922dlp
The shop at Walden Pond is mostly comprised of aisles of book. It has a few shirts, mugs, some snacks and a few other trinkets, but this is in no way a gift shop. The store itself is very clean, bright and welcoming. It was a nice side stop while visiting Walden Pond, and we were very happy with our book purchases.
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June 2021 by Deryck Durston
Superb Ken Burns movie and gift shop well-stocked with memorabilia.
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June 2021 by Daniel Borkowski
Very friendly staff and great facilities!
