"In Search of Thoreau's Flowers," on view at the Gregg Museum through January, takes visitors on a walk around Walden Pond.

October is the month for painted leaves,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in a wonderful essay called “Autumnal Tints” that a ...

Henry David Thoreau’s river journals from the 19th century are now helping scientists understanding the effects of climate change on New England's seasons. Thoreau's meticulous notes on river ice, ...

(WDBJ) - Writer, philosopher, and naturalist Henry David Thoreau was born on this day in 1817. He embraced the Transcendentalist belief in the universality of creation and the primacy of personal ...

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 ...

Those of us who took four years of high school English recall reading lots of books ... by Dickens, Steinbeck, Hemingway and other literary lions and lionesses.

Dylan N. Striek, a recent Hopkinton High School graduate who is now attending Dartmouth College, has been named a Thoreau Scholar, according to a community announcement. The scholarship, named for ...

By TJ Ray Columnist In one of his writings, perhaps his essay “Civil Disobedience,” Henry David Thoreau wrote this:  “One man ...

I’ve climbed the Bellows Pipe trail to the summit of Mount Greylock every July for 30 years. (Should have been 31, but I missed one year with a bout with bacterial meningitis.) I had hiked Bellows ...

Each weekday for several years, Macki Mei would take the 40-minute subway ride from her childhood home in Dorchester to Chinatown, where she attended Quincy Upper School.Spending so much time in ...