Tired of the seaweed and the sand when you head to the ocean? You're in luck. One of the best lakes for freshwater swimming in the country is located right here in Massachusetts, according to Reader's ...

The gifts of Walden Pond aren’t so freely given to everyone who visits. Advertisement. ... On a wet and blustery day in late May 2017, about 200 years from the day that Henry Thoreau was born, ...

A storied part of our national heritage, Walden Pond and Walden Woods in Massachusetts – where Henry David Thoreau wrote his 1854 classic "Walden" – has been named one of "America's 11 Most Endangered ...

Thoreau's Walden Pond. 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, ...

Henry David Thoreau went to the woods because, as he famously put it, \ ...

The first time we visited Walden Pond, which is to say Walden Pond State Reservation, the setting for Henry David Thoreau’s now-mythic Walden, in a wooded area just outside Concord ...

Thoreau thoroughly documented the dates, locations and descriptions of observations that he made as he walked around Walden Pond and greater Concord. We can read in his journals how often and for ...

Thoreau thoroughly documented the dates, locations and descriptions of observations that he made as he walked around Walden Pond and greater Concord. We can read in his journals how often and for ...

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 ...

I tend to connect with Thoreau most in summer, perhaps because his move to Walden Pond on the outskirts of Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 began as a summer project.

Before Henry David Thoreau planted his beans here, the pond was home to Indigenous peoples and formerly enslaved Black Concord residents who built their own community in the Walden Woods.

The tiny jellies, which arrived sometime after Henry David Thoreau, ... which manages Walden Pond State Reservation, confirmed a C. sowerbyi sighting to the website Wicked Local in 2010, ...