Haahvaahd and Henry... So what’s with the connection between Harvard University and Henry David Thoreau? A Thoreau scholar might be aware that HDT graduated from Harvard, providing one link to pontificate with, but for this humble blogger they mostly represent two places we visited yesterday on a day trip down to...

Walden’s Birthday... On this day in 1854, Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden” was published. No doubt absent were posters promoting the book, a 15-city book-signing tour, and those little bookmarks given out promoting the book and author (although Henry did try to organize a nation-wide lecture tour which...