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College students earn credit for living Thoreau's life.

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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 19971030
Author:Radsken, Jill

"Live deep and suck all the marrow out of life." - Henry David Thoreau, on living in Walden Woods, 1845-47

"Sometimes I can't believe this - that I'm doing it and it's legal." - Marc Sigrist, junior at Salisbury State University in Maryland, on living in Walden Woods, 1997.

CONCORD - What Marc Sigrist and 15 fellow students are doing here, at the cradle of American conservation and preservation, is experiencing the (not-quite-as) simple life Henry David Thoreau lived 150 years ago.

The college students are living in a heated, three-floor hunting lodge - not a one-room ...

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