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 ...

Tracy Fullerton, game designer, educator and writer, best known for Walden, a game. Professor in the USC Interactive Media & ...

CONCORD - American literary icon Henry David Thoreau spent two years, two months, and two days at Walden Pond, writing what would later be published as his book "Walden." Now, nearly 180 years later, ...

Henry David Thoreau, the environmental philosopher and author of “Walden”, was a keen observer of seasonal change. In 1862, for example, he wrote in the Atlantic Monthly: “October is the month of ...

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

CONCORD (CBS) -- Swimming at Walden Pond is being restricted to designated areas, frustrating many who enjoy the waters of the famous reservation. The new rules come amid a string of drownings in ...

A half-an-hour drive from Boston, Massachusetts, in the town of Concord, sits one of the most revered literary landscapes in the world: the 2,680-acre Walden Woods and Walden Pond State Reservation.

For 150 years, readers of Walden have imagined the place where Henry David Thoreau sought solitude. Actually visiting, however, many have been shocked. Walden Pond is really a lake. Sixty-one watery ...

FILE - In this May 26, 2010 file photo, Collette Royer, of Cambridge, Mass., left, sits on the edge of Walden Pond, in Concord, Mass., with her parents Harvey, center ...

Lawrence Millman will discuss, read from and autograph copies of “Outsider” and “Goodbye, Ice” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, at Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW. At 2 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at ...