Twice a month, at the Holliday Park Nature Center, in the high-ceilinged library lined with shelves of field guides and encyclopedias, a determined group has gathered since 2004 to mine, milk, and ...

Henry David Thoreau’s nonfiction classic "Walden, or A Life in the Woods" was first published on this day in history, on Aug. 9, 1854. "Walden" is about the virtues of simple living and ...

Let’s take a moment to consider the words of one of America’s most prominent and esoteric philosophers, Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau is best known as a New England Transcendentalist who spent the ...

Introduction -- A brief biography of Henry David Thoreau -- Part One, Thoreau as seen by his contemporaries -- Thoreau / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- "A slight, quaint-looking person" / Daniel Ricketson -- ...

Henry David Thoreau was an essayist, a poet, and a philosopher. Along with his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau was a leader of the transcendentalist movement. He is known for his book ...

Paying homage to the long-dead Transcendentalist, some people are building full-scale replicas of Henry David Thoreau’s ...