The upright citizens of Concord, Massachusetts, didn't think much of young Henry David Thoreau. The cabin on Walden Pond, the night in jail for tax evasion, the constant scribbling in journals ...

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that ...

LOWELL — In 1839, Henry David Thoreau and his brother, John, climbed into a handmade skiff and embarked on a waterway journey from their Concord home to Hooksett, N.H. During the 55-mile ...