The Walden Woods Project preserves the land, literature and legacy of Henry David Thoreau to foster an ethic of environmental stewardship and social responsibility ... read more
Join us for this first-of-its-kind Statewide Read in Massachusetts!
The Walden Woods Project, The Honors College at UMass Lowell, Massachusetts Center for the Book, and Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area are thrilled to announce the Thoreau Bicentennial Statewide Read in celebration of the 200th birthday of the great American writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau. Our goal is for… Read more
Walden Pond Visitor Center Open
As the new year begins, the stunning, new Walden Pond State Reservation Visitor Center is now open to the public. As the official Friends of Walden Pond, the Walden Woods Project is excited about the opportunity to work more closely with the Department of Conservation and Recreation’s interpretive staff at… Read more
Don Henley helps open the new Visitor Center at Walden
Don Henley was in Concord on September 27, 2016 to help open the brand-new Visitor Center at Walden Pond State Reservation. Hundreds of people were on hand to see the innovative structure, and were treated to a trailer from the up-coming short film executive produced by Ken Burns that will… Read more
The Walden Woods Project’s New Website
Welcome to our new website! The new site continues to feature our vast collection of content by and about Henry David Thoreau, information about Walden Pond and its surrounding lands as well as broader land conservation and the global environment, our education programs and resources and The Farm at Walden… Read more
Buy a Red Maple sapling grown from Walden Woods seed
The Walden Woods Project has partnered with American Heritage Trees, a non-profit historic farm in Tennessee. Together, we are working to offer sapling trees for sale that are grown from seeds collected in Walden Woods. Check out the Historic Trees From A Historic Farm offerings at American Heritage Trees. Sales… Read more
Upcoming Events
Thoreau's Flint: The Pond and the Farmer
Henry David Thoreau, as he liked to say, “traveled a good deal in Concord.” But he also traveled quite a bit in Lincoln, including to Flint’s Pond, which neighbors what is now deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. “A walk through the woods thither was often my recreation,” he wrote in Walden.... Read more
Translating Thoreau: A Panel Discussion
Emerson said, “Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.” That is the role of a good translator. And for anyone who has read a work in translation knows: translation matters. The Walden Woods Project brings together a unique... Read more
