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MWCC Volunteers Reach Summit of Wachusett Mountain during Fundraising Event

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Group of faculty, staff, students and community members at the top of Mount Wachusett

With President Daniel M. Asquino leading the way to the summit of Wachusett Mountain, Mount Wachusett Community College began an annual tradition on the mild morning of Saturday, Oct. 18. In the first “Hike for the Humanities” fundraiser, a group of MWCC faculty, staff and alumni simulated Henry David Thoreau’s 1842 hike of Wachusett Mountain, […]

In Thoreau’s Footsteps: MWCC Humanities Project Fundraiser

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George F. Higgins, View of Wachusett from Harvard, no date. (private collection) [landscape scene of a field, large tree and lake]

In a show of college-wide support for the MWCC Humanities Project, faculty, staff and students will walk in the footsteps of Henry David Thoreau to the summit of Wachusett Mountain, a spot the noted author and philosopher once labeled “the observatory of the state.” Participants in the first “Hike for the Humanities” fundraiser on Saturday […]