Richard Smith

Voices of Sudbury

Richard Smith is an independent public historian who has lectured on and written about antebellum United States history, Transcendentalism, and 19th-century American literature since 1995. He has worked in Concord as a public historian and Living History Interpreter since 1999 and has portrayed Henry Thoreau at Walden Pond and around the country. Richard has written six books for Applewood Books and is the former Scholar in Residence at Longfellow's Wayside Inn in Sudbury and was recently involved in the research and creation of the new Native American exhibit in The Sudbury Historical Society.