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Walden: The Earth Song Collection is an eleven song album is an acoustic song cycle of Henry David Thoreau s stay in his cabin at Walden Pond, full of guitars, mandolins, cellos, string quartets and flutes. Educational liner notes are written by Jeff Cramer of the Thoreau Institute. This album is manufactured in a secure, recycled chip board eco-pak and includes a 20 page booklet. The CD is companion piece to the theatrical play, "Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau," written by folksinger and tree hugger Michael Johnathon, and is being performed in colleges, theaters and schools worldwide in recognition of Earth Day. In an age of global warming, bio-fuels, hybrid cars and oil wars, says play author Michael Johnathon from his farmhouse home in Kentucky, the play can introduce students to Thoreau as well as environmental concerns in their own home towns at a time when, frankly, they need it. Over 3,992 venues from far away as South Korea, Egypt, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Belgium, Australia, Ireland, England, Germany, Israel, Canada and the across the USA are presenting the play as an Earth Day 2007 event. Henry David Thoreau is considered America s original tree hugger and forefather of our environmental movement. He was a gentle naturalist, earth lover, author, pencil-maker ... and is the most quoted American writer in history. Yet, when he passed, he was better known for having helped market the pencil than for a single word he wrote with it. The play has also been produced as a drama in the style of the 1940's and 50's radio plays and will be broadcast on over 500 radio stations, internet broadcasters and XM Satellite Radio. The radio drama features actor Ryan Case as Thoreau, Edmund Desiato as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ross Carter portrays the common man character of Joshua Barnett and Tara Adkins plays Rachel Stuers. The Walden play is provided free to schools, theaters and public radio by Dixon-Ticonderoga and supp