I’ve never met someone with the ability to light up a room like you could,” one of the grieving boyfriend’s wrote.

An Evening with Henry David Thoreau” will take place at 7 p.m. in the downstairs hall of the Congregational Church of ...

The Inn at Hastings Park has a front-porch view of the start of the Revolutionary War. But there’s much more to the vibrant ...

Richard Higgins, a former Globe reporter, is author of “Thoreau’s God” and “Thoreau and the Language of Trees.” On April 19, ...

From the Finger Lakes to Blue Cypress Lake, these stunning vacation spots by the water might just be some of the best East Coast lakes to visit.

Lovers of literature should also stop by Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House and take a stroll around Walden Pond. Concord is a short 20-mile drive from Boston, which makes it a quick destination. If ...

Literary couple Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon breathed life into the house at Eagle Pond Farm in the decades they lived and wrote there. Now, seven years after Hall’s death and 30 years after ...

Literary couple Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon breathed life into the house at Eagle Pond Farm in the decades they lived and wrote there. Now, seven years after Hall’s death and 30 years after Kenyon’s, ...

A new exhibit at the Concord Museum in Concord, Massachusetts shows what everyday life was like in the 18th century as part of the state's 250th anniversary celebration of the American Revolution.

Your world is built from the inside of your skull outward, not vice versa. Thoreau’s retreat to Walden Pond is often mistaken for a hermit’s flight deep into the woods. Actually, Thoreau put some ...