Gina Siepel in collaboration with Monika Sziladi "After Winslow Homer Series: Study after Homer" (Courtesy of the artist) Henry David Thoreau’s reflections from that tiny cabin in Concord have ...

Henry David Thoreau was a prolific American writer and naturalist. What we might consider “stunt journalism” today, Thoreau spent more than two years living alone in the woods near Walden Pond in ...

Henry David Thoreau died on May 6, 1862, in Concord, Mass., surrounded by books and flowers. At the funeral, his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered a eulogy that emphasized Thoreau’s ...

It happened this past week ... the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great naturalist and writer Henry David Thoreau on July 12th, 1817. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, ...

Henry David Thoreau is rightly known for the time he spent at Walden Pond near his home in Concord, Massachusetts. But a new book offers a different take on the famous author and naturalist. Author ...

The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond by Michael Sims (Bloomsbury) It can sometimes feel impossible to differentiate Henry David Thoreau, the man, from Henry ...

CONCORD, Mass. (AP) – Henry David Thoreau famously wrote of “the sunshine of a winter’s day,” and now the simple place that inspired him the most is going solar. Officials are breaking ground on a new ...

It was early June, still too soon for the summer influx of beachgoers and holidaymakers, when I visited America’s most famous pond. The only people besides photographer Tim Laman and me were a few ...

Henry David Thoreau might seem an unlikely candidate for a digital reformatting, but the State University of New York at Geneseo has given the author's most famous work, Walden, an online presence ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth — err, game. Henry David Thoreau wrote ...