Before Thoreau's "life in the woods," there was Brister Freeman, a formerly enslaved man who won his freedom serving in the ...

His name was Henry David Thoreau, and in his contemplative 1854 classic, “Walden: Or, Life in the Woods,” the famous naturalist, essayist and philosopher described Freeman and some of the ...

A half-an-hour drive from Boston, Massachusetts, in the town of Concord, sits one of the most revered literary landscapes in the world: the 2,680-acre Walden Woods and Walden Pond State Reservation.

Walden Woods is a community of duplex condominiums that is being built in phases on the Arboretum property on Kalamazoo's West Side. The first phase, located on some of 80 acres of land between ...

Concord’s former dump could soon be at center of a battle between a conservation group looking to protect Walden Woods, and school district officials searching for land for a new bus depot that ...

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life," Thoreau wrote in Walden. Simplicity ruled. Or as Thoreau put it, "While civilization has ...

After much wrangling, homeowners at the tiny Walden Woods development on Bear Brook Road have gotten a referee call from COAH in agreement with their long-term position that the affordable housing ...

The world’s most improbable video game plunges you into a virtual Walden Woods, where you can “live deliberately,” as Thoreau famously put it, replacing drudgery in the pursuit of material ...

Although he is mostly remembered for his experiment in living simply in Walden Woods near Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau was also a lifelong abolitionist, who went to jail for his ...

An all-day search around the quarries near Walden Woods that included the use of police officers, drones, a search dog and several other agencies resulted in the discovery of the man at about 3: ...