Henry Thoreau describes the art of walking as “Holy-Landing,” a crusade to reclaim the paradise of our beginnings. “We should go forth on the shortest walk in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return.” In this field trip to the woods of Surry County, we seek the sources of American home in the “Virginia House,” a transient building form now lost to history. Admixed of European, Native American, and African elements, this earliest of American dwellings is now being reconstructed using authentic historic methods and materials in the Native forests of our first minglings. Registration here.