I’ve never met someone with the ability to light up a room like you could,” one of the grieving boyfriend’s wrote.

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 ...

The author of Walden recorded first flowering times from 1852 to 1858 for more than 300 plant species in Concord ... and when the ice melted on Walden Pond. Some 160 years later, Richard Primack ...

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 ...

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

The jets would use the runway that leads planes over Minute Man Park, Walden Pond, Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, and the historic homes. The Concord Minute Men were at the rally against ...

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