Two years, two months and two days. That’s how long Henry David Thoreau (1817-1863) spent in the little 10’x15’ cabin he built on the beautiful, wooded Walden Pond near Concord, MA, where his family ...

Human activity around the pristine pond where Henry David Thoreau wrote his famous book Walden, or, Life in the Woods is altering its ecosystem, new research finds. Leslie Katz led a team that ...

CHICAGO -- Nathen Cantu jotted down dozens of telephone numbers he had programmed into his cell phone but never bothered to learn. The Mundelein High School senior then shut down the phone that for ...

Access these resources as a member - it's free! Concord Museum curator David Wood visited Walden Pond to recount Henry David Thoreau’s time there and the lasting impact of his book. For two years, ...

A half-an-hour drive from Boston, Massachusetts, in the town of Concord, sits one of the most revered literary landscapes in the world: the 2,680-acre Walden Woods and Walden Pond State Reservation.

Henry David Thoreau, the environmental philosopher and author of “Walden”, was a keen observer of seasonal change. In 1862, for example, he wrote in the Atlantic Monthly: “October is the month of ...

For 150 years, readers of Walden have imagined the place where Henry David Thoreau sought solitude. Actually visiting, however, many have been shocked. Walden Pond is really a lake. Sixty-one watery ...

Robert Thorson says that while the pond is certainly a large part of Thoreau's legacy, the rivers that flowed around him are a better metaphor for... Thoreau Was Known For Walden Pond, But One Scholar ...

A screenshot of late-summer boating on the version of Concord's Walden Pond in the PS4 game "Walden, a game." (Courtesy USC Game Innovation Lab) Have you ever wondered what it was like for Concord ...