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Virginia author's memoir highlights a Caribbean escape from cubicle life
Star News via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoHenry David Thoreau spent two years in a cabin beside Walden Pond, learning to "simplify, simplify,"...
5 wintry books to read during long nights
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWalden Pond was Thoreau's sometimes chilly muse. Lane Turner for The Boston Globe/via Getty ImagesWinter solstice brings the shortest day and longest...
Minute Man National Historical Park and Walden Pond are on list of ‘most endangered historic places’
WFXT via Yahoo News· 1 month agoMinute Man National Historical Park in Lincoln and Walden Pond in Concord are among the "most...
This Walden Pond–Inspired Writer’s Studio Holds a Trove of More Than 1,700 Poetry Books
Dwell via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe stone-clad Connecticut retreat is surprisingly advanced with a steel frame, glass sliders,...
By fact-checking Thoreau's observations at Walden Pond, we showed how old diaries and specimens can...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoScientists have used author Henry David Thoreau's notes to inform studies of climate change in...
Woodburn: Shower brings to mind Walden Pond
VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA 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...
Bob Hill: Who's preserving Harlan Hubbard's beloved Payne Hollow?
The Courier Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA fine history is brewing in Payne Hollow, a sloping, remote, rugged piece of forested land along...
‘We wouldn’t swim in the water here’: Mass. beaches closed due to excessive bacteria
WFXT via Yahoo News· 2 days agoJust a week after more than 80 state beaches opened for the season, 18 are now closed--most due to...
Oak Ridge's Summer Sessions latest concert hits a home run
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 12 months agoSometimes enchantment feels effortless. The ORNL-FCU's Summer Sessions concert last Saturday,...
THIS IS AMERICA: What an Oregon Pond Teaches Us of Life (And Go the Ducks!)
SPIN via Yahoo News· 8 months agoTHIS IS AMERICA: What an Oregon Pond Teaches Us of Life (And Go the Ducks!) Life in the misty Umpqua...