Ken Lizotte, Founder/CEO of Emerson Consulting Group Inc and president emeritus of the Board of Trustees at Thoreau Farm, ...

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, ...

After 26 years in character as the 19th-century transcendentalist writer, Richard Smith is hanging up his straw hat. By Alex Vadukul and Tony Luong In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on ...

Stewarding over 1,000 acres of land in Barnstable, the Barnstable Land Trust works to conserve some of the Cape's illustrious landscape. In celebration of its 40th anniversary, the trust will host a ...

Schnur (The Shadow Children) deftly plucks Thoreau's own words from Walden, and Fiore's (The Boston Tea Party) luminous watercolor and oil paintings affectingly evoke the simplicity and serenity of ...

The Henry David Thoreau Foundation awards four-year collegiate scholarships of up to $26,000 to eight to 10 students graduating from public or private high schools in Massachusetts.

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 ...

During the coldest winter in Massachusetts since 1918, painter and writer Ben Shattuck chopped off the top half inch of one of his fingers. He was on a lot of painkillers, and a string of nightmares ...

In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century Massachusetts. By Francesca Wade The discovery of ammunition from the 1700s ...