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

Massachusetts has plenty of haunted places to visit this spooky season, including restaurants, hotels, cemeteries and even ...

Text by Andrew Burmon Photograph by wereldmuis, via Flickr The Declaration of Independence endowed us with the right to ...

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

He earned a reputation as a radical on the forefront of movements for equality and justice. Many thought of him as a prophet.

The idea that we can and will save the Great Salt Lake is no longer a utopian fantasy — it’s a realistic goal that requires a ...

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.

Pick was a futurist at a time when many people thought the world would be lucky to escape a nuclear exchange. So for his ...

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

He was a spy, a crusader, an obsessive advocate for neglected people and places—yet his work was shaped, too, by an inner ...

As Sam Adams remarked on the occasion of the Battle of Lexington in 1775, so we can say today: “What a glorious morning for ...

With the completion of the $28 million Sawyer Free Library building project, officials are hosting a special event to ...