{"id":978,"date":"2026-08-28T14:50:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pigsnoutadk.com\/wordpress\/?p=978"},"modified":"2026-08-28T22:41:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T02:41:58","slug":"the-philosophers-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pigsnoutadk.com\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/28\/the-philosophers-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"The Philosopher&#8217;s Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Pig Snout is often compared to the Philosophers Camp that&#8217;s chronicled by the Emerson poem &#8220;The Adirondacs&#8221; and depicted by the Stillman painting &#8220;The Philosophers&#8217; Camp in the Adirondacks&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;In the summer of 1858 an expedition of ten scholarly men from Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts embarked on a trip to Follensby Pond in the Adirondacks, creating what came to be known as the Philosophers\u2019 Camp at the shore of the pond&#8230;&#8221; <br>Background on the expedition can be found at an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theadkx.org\/the-philosophers-camp-at-follensby-pond\/\">exhibit at the Museum on Blue Mountain Lake<\/a>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ralph Waldo Emerson&#8217;s poem &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/fiftyacresofbeachandwood.org\/2015\/03\/10\/ralph-waldo-emersons-the-adirondacs\/\">The Adirondacs<\/a>&#8220;<br>William James Stillman&#8217;s painting &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adirondackexplorer.org\/adirondacks-almanack\/stillmans-historic-painting-and-the-future-of-follensby-pond\/\">The Philosophers&#8217; Camp in the Adirondacks<\/a>&#8220;. <br>Coincidentally, the painting currently hangs in the Concord Free Public Library, about 15 miles from my house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pig Snout is often compared to the Philosophers Camp that&#8217;s chronicled by the Emerson poem &#8220;The Adirondacs&#8221; and depicted by the Stillman painting &#8220;The Philosophers&#8217; Camp in the Adirondacks&#8221;. &#8220;In the summer of 1858 an expedition of ten scholarly men from Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts embarked on a trip to Follensby Pond in the Adirondacks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adirondacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pigsnoutadk.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pigsnoutadk.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pigsnoutadk.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pigsnoutadk.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pigsnoutadk.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/pigsnoutadk.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"https:\/\/pigsnoutadk.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pigsnoutadk.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pigsnoutadk.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pigsnoutadk.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pigsnoutadk.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}