Happy Birthday, Henry

MAINE ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS • July 12, 2020

American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817. In 1845, he began his famous two-year stay on Walden Pond, which he wrote about in Walden. He died on May 6, 1862. His book The Maine Woods was published posthumously in 1864.