Two centuries after the “Walden” author’s birth, people are still deliberately following in Thoreau’s footsteps to discover Walden Pond, the little lake he immortalized.

A retreating glacier formed it 10,000 or so years ago, but it was Thoreau — born in Concord 200 years ago this summer on July 12, 1817 — who really put Walden Pond on the map.

A can't-miss attraction on Walden Pond State Reservation is the reconstruction of the tiny ...

CONCORD, Mass. — Henry David Thoreau went to the woods because, as he famously put it, “I wished to live deliberately.” Two centuries after the “Walden” author’s… ...

WALDEN POND. A retreating glacier formed it 10,000 or so years ago, but it was Thoreau — born in Concord 200 years ago this summer on July 12, 1817 — who really put Walden Pond on the map.