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This trio of new novels shows real people in their natural habitats, drawn with writerly flair. Florence Nightingale is best known as the saintly “Lady With the Lamp,” patrolling the [...]

Beginning in August and well into the fall here in New England, the crickets take over the night, their song a chiming of little bells or a rhythmic ripple of [...]

'Thoreau Reconsidered' at Wave Hill is the second of three exhibitions inviting contemporary artists to take inspiration from 19th-century American writing about nature. It follows 'Emily Dickinson Rendered,' a thoughtful […]

HENRY BUILDS A CABIN Written and illustrated by D. B. Johnson. Unpaged. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $15. (Ages 4 to 8) HENRY DAVID'S HOUSE By Henry David Thoreau. Edited by […]

In the early pages of his classic essay 'Walden,' the 19th-century philosopher Henry David Thoreau offered this counterintuitive assertion about traveling in Massachusetts: It takes less time to walk from […]

LAWYERS for Theodore J. Kaczynski, the man accused of being the Unabomber, had his tiny cabin brought here last week on a flatbed truck from Montana so that jurors at […]

By 1 P.M., all 350 spaces in the parking lot were filled, and the cars were still coming. A park staff worker was directing traffic. 'There are too many people,' […]

Dr. Walter R. Harding, a leading scholar of the life and works of Henry David Thoreau and emeritus professor of English at the State University of New York College at […]

'TIME is but the stream I go a-fishing in,' Henry David Thoreau wrote in the famous account of his two-year experiment in thinking, living and studying nature at Walden Pond. […]

THE piercing sounds of a solitary flute in a tiny pitch-black theater mark the beginning of 'An Hour at Walden,' the Victory Theater's latest offering. The lights slowly come up […]

CONCORD, Mass. - 'The future inhabitants of this region,' wrote Henry David Thoreau in 'Walden,' 'wherever they may place their houses, may be sure that they have been anticipated.' But […]

LEAD: Memorial stones for Henry James and Henry David Thoreau will be placed in the American Poets' Corner at the cnclusion of vespers on Oct. 23 at 7 P.M. at […]