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    • 5 wintry books to read during long nights

      5 wintry books to read during long nights

      The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year ago

      Walden Pond was Thoreau's sometimes chilly muse. Lane Turner for The Boston Globe/via Getty ImagesWinter solstice brings the shortest day and longest...

    • Woodburn: Shower brings to mind Walden Pond

      Woodburn: Shower brings to mind Walden Pond

      VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo News· 8 months ago

      A cliché, overworn to threads, has it that something really boring is “like watching paint dry.” While I have never felt obliged to test the truth of...

    • Today in History: August 9, atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

      Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years ago

      On Aug. 9, 1974, Vice President Gerald R. Ford became the nation’s 38th chief executive as President Richard Nixon’s resignation took effect. In 1854, Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden,” which described ...