Cathryn McIntyre

The Concord Writer

Cathryn McIntyre

Cathryn McIntyre is an independent scholar of the life and work of transcendentalist writer, Henry David Thoreau and of the literary history of 19th century Concord, Massachusetts. She is also a gifted writer whose book, Honor in Concord: Seeking Spirit in Literary Concord, combines her passion for Concord's literary history with the story of her own spiritual pursuits.

Cathryn has spent years investigating such topics as astrology, clairvoyance, mediumship, the near death experience, the notion of both past and parallel lives, as well as the alien abduction phenomenon. This has given her an advantage over more traditional scholars when it comes to understanding transcendentalism in general, and in relating to the transcendentalist writers of 19th century Concord.

Cathryn remembers a habit she had during childhood of isolating certain cards from a deck called “Authors”. Those cards held the images of Concord writers, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Louisa May Alcott. She knew nothing about those authors at that time or of their association in mid-19th century Concord, but it is in that moment that her life path is revealed. It is first as a spiritualist, someone who understands and fundamentally relates to the elements of spirit; and second, as a passionate enthusiast for the writers of this most historic and profoundly spiritual place called Concord.

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Cathryn McIntyre has a B.A. in English from Michigan State University and has done graduate work at both Harvard Extension School and at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is currently at work on a book entitled, Thoreau's Wise Silence, that brings Thoreau and his message to life again in the 21st century. Her essays on transcendentalism and on the politics of Thoreau have appeared in The Thoreau Society Bulletin.

Shelby Cathryn

Excerpt from, Honor in Concord, by
Cathryn McIntyre - [Copyright 2008]

"I looked at her and she looked at me and I saw the fear and then the relief in her eyes, and I knew, my dear girl, my Shelby, had awakened at that early morning hour, and finding herself alone on the bed at a time when I am most often there with her, had called out to me, and somehow in some strange way I had heard her."

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Publications

Honor in Concord: Seeking Spirit in Literary Concord (Memoir & Ficiton ) 2008

The Politics of Thoreau: A Spiritual Intent (essay) 2008

Transcendentalism: A Belief in Spirit (essay) 2006

Works in Progress

Thoreau's Wise Silence
(to be published 2010)