Brick from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Pond cabin. It was retrieved from the site by Wade Van Dore, co-founder of the Thoreau Journal Quarterly , in 1920. Van Dore presented it to Middlebury College ...

Abe Lincoln was a cabin dweller. Henry David Thoreau spent a couple of years in one near Walden Pond. Ethel Waters, on Broadway and in film, sang longingly about a cabin parked high in the sky.

Walden Pond is also frequented in summer by walkers ... They’re then shown the replica of his cabin, where the timber doorway ...

During his daily wanderings through field and forest, he also noted when migrating birds returned, when leaves burst forth on trees, and when the ice melted on Walden Pond. Some 160 years later ...