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 ...

and when the ice melted on Walden Pond. Some 160 years later, Richard Primack, a biologist at Boston University, is using Thoreau’s handwritten data to track how the climate has changed in this ...

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

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that ...

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 ...