Richard Higgins, a former Globe reporter, is author of “Thoreau’s God” and “Thoreau and the Language of Trees.” On April 19, ...

Thoreau had built himself a 10- by 15-foot cabin with secondhand lumber on shoreline property at Walden owned by Emerson. Thoreau lived at the pond for two years, two months and two days.

During his daily wanderings through field and forest, he also noted when migrating birds returned, when leaves burst forth on trees, and when the ice melted on Walden Pond. Some 160 years later ...

In class, learn to appreciate how difficult it may be to listen to your professor. Close your browsers and lower your laptop screen. Next time a friend hits you with the classic Yale nicety “let’s get ...

The cabin on Walden Pond, the night in jail for tax evasion, the constant scribbling in journals—it all seemed like a waste of a perfectly good Harvard education. Even more mysterious was his ...

The Commonwealth is full of pretty places. From Walden Pond to the Wood End Lighthouse in Provincetown, Massachusetts is a state where people can find pockets of wonder in almost everywhere. However, ...

Become a hermit — a plan akin to Henry David Thoreau’s hermetic years by Walden Pond — used to hold a prominent place on my list of resolutions, but after a year-long attempt, it had to go. It’s not ...

"Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau" takes a journey back in time to the final two days Henry David Thoreau spent in his cabin before leaving Walden Pond. Taken from actual writings and conversations ...

But have you ever wondered which freshwater bodies are the deepest in Massachusetts? Here's a few of the ones that SCUBA gear ...