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Grant Wallace supplies chefs at Gunshow, Indaco, A Mano, Octopus Bar, and Seed Kitchen & Bar, and was a large supplier of pop ...
This Concord shop has been named one of the top 10 independent bookstores in the country by USA Today's Reader's Choice Awards for 2025.
Thoreau’s most famous endeavor was his two-year stint at Walden Pond, responsible for his subsequently most famous work “Walden.” He built a small cabin on the borrowed land of another famous ...
The term brain rot first appeared in Henry David Thoreau's famous Walden, according to the Oxford University Press. How did he use it — and what might he have made of its modern meaning?
Walden Books, Chalk Farm — a place of 'eccentricity and magic' - David Ellis uncovers a North London bookshop with a ‘strange ...
On this day in history, August 9, 1954, the influential "Walden, or a Life in the Woods," by Henry David Thoreau was published, about the virtues of simple living in a modern world.
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 ...
Concord-born academic Elise Lemire has researched the history of slavery in Thoreau’s home town and her book Black Walden traces the history of the formerly-enslaved who lived in Walden Woods in ...