An Evening with Henry David Thoreau” will take place at 7 p.m. in the downstairs hall of the Congregational Church of ...

The upright citizens of Concord, Massachusetts, didn't think much of young Henry David Thoreau. The cabin on Walden Pond, the night in jail for tax evasion, the constant scribbling in journals ...

Henry David Thoreau set out from the family home in Concord, Massachusetts, to take up residence at nearby Walden Pond to find himself. He was not yet 28. He had a degree from HarvardCollege ...

Richard Higgins, a former Globe reporter, is author of “Thoreau’s God” and “Thoreau and the Language of Trees.” On April 19, ...

In class, learn to appreciate how difficult it may be to listen to your professor. Close your browsers and lower your laptop screen. Next time a friend hits you with the classic Yale nicety “let’s get ...

The detailed notes that Henry David Thoreau kept about weather ... and when the ice melted on Walden Pond. Some 160 years later, Richard Primack, a biologist at Boston University, is using ...

I’d come to the seashore on the trail of writer Henry David Thoreau ... I’ve lived in Boston for almost 20 years, visited Thoreau’s grave in Concord, Massachusetts, and floated in Walden Pond, I’d ...