Thoreau apparently found no book so bad it couldn't be used in some fashion. During his first year at Walden Pond, Thoreau cultivated about two and a half acres of Emerson's land, planting and ...

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 ...

I thought homesteading would save us money on groceries and allow us to be self-sufficient. I was wrong, but we still love ...

THIS charming village shows a whole other side of Essex. Finchingfield is one of the prettiest villages in the UK, in fact, it’s so picturesque that American soldiers tried to buy it during ...

Like a modern-day Henry David Thoreau, writer and self-reliance guru Tamara Dean set out early in this century to make a home ...

The city of Attleboro and the Capron Park Zoo announce the opening of the Zoo's new Pollinator Garden Bilingual Book Walk.

Busting myths; how a drop of water changed a girl’s life; a tribe’s respect for fishes; and more: picks from columnist.

“Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Alcott then were all close neighbors.” Walden Pond, where transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau lived and wrote, is also nearby. “The ideals that were ...

Massachusetts—where Henry David Thoreau kept notes about the flowers blooming near Walden Pond in the mid-1800s—as well as Britain. The researchers found that many nonnative species are ...

Dinner service begins at 5:30 p.m. (Courtesy of the author) “The Flip Side”: by Jason Walz (Rocky Pond Books/Penguin Young Readers, $17.99) I thought that once I got here everything would make ...