Nickerson State Park is your answer. This 1,900-acre wonderland feels more like Maine than Massachusetts with its thick pine forests and crystal-clear kettle ponds. Who needs the ocean when you’ve got ...

On clear Memorial Day weekends, you can see all the way to New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. The park features more than 20 miles of hiking trails ranging from easy strolls to challenging climbs.

As I write this, my cat Luna is acting like a vulture, sitting on the top of my chair behind my head, looking over my ...

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

In class, learn to appreciate how difficult it may be to listen to your professor. Close your browsers and lower your laptop screen. Next time a friend hits you with the classic Yale nicety “let’s get ...

Each year, half a million people visit Henry David Thoreau’s cabin at Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. The dazzling reflections of the fall foliage on the lake’s surface attract ...

Thoreau lived at Walden Pond for 26 months; Harlan and Anna lived together in their home-made cabin at Payne Hollow for more than thirty years. From a private collection, a photo of the print of a ...

Mary Lou Walden Wagner (1937-2025) of Williamsburg, Virginia, passed away peacefully on April 3, 2025, at WindsorMeade Retirement Community. Born in Richmond, Virginia, to Margie and Richard ...

Byline Times is an independent, reader-funded investigative newspaper, outside of the system of the established press, reporting on ‘what the papers don’t say’ – without fear or favour. William ...

The incident happened while two men were kayaking in Long Pond near Heaven Heights in Freetown, when firefighters said one of their boats filled up with water. Both the Lakeville and Freetown Fire ...

A federal appeals court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to resume firing thousands of probationary government employees, lifting a lower-court judge’s order that had blocked ...