"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 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 ...

(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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

After 26 years in character as the 19th-century transcendentalist writer, Richard Smith is hanging up his straw hat. After 26 years in character as the 19th-century transcendentalist writer, Richard ...