...to my web page where I have boldly stepped out of the 19th Century and into the 21st! I have portrayed Henry David Thoreau for almost 10 years and on this site you can learn more about me and my career as an historian. Do you want to meet Henry Thoreau? Come on in and find out how to contact me for a Living History appearance as Concord's self-proclaimed "mystic, Transcendentalist, and natural philosopher..."

"But one veil hangs over the past, present, and future, and it is the province of the historian to find out, not what was, but what is." - from "A Week On the Concord and Merrimack Rivers", 1849

This site is dedicated to the man who taught me to love history.

Ron C. Smith (1928-2008)