{"id":137,"date":"2019-01-06T19:20:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T19:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/?page_id=137"},"modified":"2020-07-04T21:20:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T21:20:05","slug":"mission-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/?page_id=137","title":{"rendered":"Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Mission of the Thoreau Center<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1979, Harold J. Wells named the Thoreau Center in honor of <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walden.org\/what-we-do\/library\/thoreau\/\">Henry David Thoreau<\/a><\/span> (1817-1862). In his many books and essays, Thoreau emphasized a back-to-nature, self-sufficient lifestyle, encouraging civil disobedience of unjust laws, antislavery, and being true to your own inner principles.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_176\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Henry-David-Thoreau.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-176 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Henry-David-Thoreau-300x230.png\" alt=\"Henry David Thoreau\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Henry-David-Thoreau-300x230.png 300w, http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Henry-David-Thoreau.png 302w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry David Thoreau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Harold&#8217;s vision for the Center was\u00a0to encourage people to grow together in becoming a caring and sharing community where they could enjoy and share individual arts and talents with others, join grassroots efforts in our democratic government, work for peace and justice, and\u00a0appreciate and conserve the wonders of our natural world.<\/p>\n<p>Harold conveyed the Center to The Thoreau Center, LLC that is owned by Scott Hartsook and Dennis Groenenboom in June of 2013. The two have been local community advocates for justice and equal rights, and have been residents of the Thoreau Center neighborhood since 1983. They see this endeavor as a wonderful opportunity to continue Harold&#8217;s efforts and foster this community that has meant so much to them. Please join us as custodians of the democratic, community minded, human family at the Thoreau Center.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-184\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Wellspring-Community-Church-service.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-184 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Wellspring-Community-Church-service-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Wellspring Community Church service\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Wellspring-Community-Church-service-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Wellspring-Community-Church-service.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the great room, a Wellspring Community Church service.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_149\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Political-Event.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-149 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Political-Event-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"2018 Political Event\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Political-Event-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Political-Event.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2018 congressional candidate Cindy Axne meets supporters at the Thoreau Center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mission of the Thoreau Center In 1979, Harold J. Wells named the Thoreau Center in honor of Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862). In his many books and essays, Thoreau emphasized a back-to-nature, self-sufficient lifestyle, encouraging civil disobedience of unjust laws, antislavery, and being true to your own inner principles. Harold&#8217;s vision for the Center was\u00a0to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-137","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thethoreaucenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}