There are 26 different types of hand-painted wallpaper throughout the property ... Walden Pond, where transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau lived and wrote, is also nearby.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Herman Melville’s “The Confidence-Man.” Mark Twain’s “The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg.” And Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience.” Taken as a ...

According to a community announcement, “An Evening with Henry David Thoreau” will take place at 7 p.m. in the downstairs hall of the Congregational Church of Phillipston. The program is free ...

On April 19, Concord and the nation will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Fight at North Bridge, the battle that sparked the American Revolutionary War. Concord took no real note of the ...

WARMINSTER, PA —Poet and Philosopher Henry David Thoreau may have lived in Walden Woods, but he will be spending some time this weekend at the Warminster Township Free Library. The library is ...

But in only a single semester here, I found my love of learning again.” Her Commencement speech is inspired by a Henry David Thoreau quote that has sustained her at Brandeis: “Be not simply good; be ...

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that ...

It’s the sort of work that puts you in mind of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, which was published 40 years after Friedrich composed his painting. “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog” (c.

Before tourists and traffic, and long before clam shacks and ice cream parlors, 19th century essayist, naturalist and thinker Henry David Thoreau walked Cape Cod’s outer shoreline — marveling ...

A biography of a founding figure in the American Transcendentalist movement who was a touchstone for political dissent and environmental writing, by a leading scholar.