Flooding, bacteria, hostility: So much for Walden Pond’s tranquility
With broad, powerful strokes, Brough traverses Walden Pond well outside the roped-off area where children splash and watchful ...
Saving Walden Pond: How a treasured landmark is under threat
the 2,680-acre Walden Woods and Walden Pond State Reservation. Annually, over a half-million people pay homage to the storied ...
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Diaries from Walden Pond Offer A Gauge of Climate Change
During his daily wanderings through field and forest, he also noted when migrating birds returned, when leaves burst forth on trees, and when the ice melted on Walden Pond. Some 160 years later ...
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‘The only remedy for love is to love more’: Life imagined on Thoreau’s Walden Pond
In this immersive historical fiction Helen Humphreys richly imagines the robust inner life of naturalist and abolitionist Henry David Thoreau (1817-1861) inspired by the journals he kept from 1837 ...
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VOX POPULI: ‘Touch grass,’ Thoreau’s ghost cries over Word of the Year 2024
The U.S. author and philosopher Henry D. Thoreau (1817-1862) was in his late 20s when he built himself a hut on the shores of Walden Pond in Greater Boston, Massachusetts, where he lived a life of ...
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5 charming, scenic small towns that celebrate the holidays with old-fashioned style
On a short hike around Thoreau’s retreat at Walden Pond, take in the snow-covered landscape and absorb the simplicity of the natural world that meant so much to him.
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Begin 2025 outdoors with First Day Hikes in Mass.
This year’s DCR hikes will take place at spots like Breakheart Reservation in Saugus, Blue Hills Reservation in Milton, Halibut Point State Park in Rockport, Walden Pond State Reservation in ...